Taking their word : literature and the signs of Central America / Arturo Arias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arias, Arturo, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Central American literature.

Central American literature--Mayan influences.

National characteristics, Central American, in literature.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 299 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]

Contents:

Revolutionary endgame : globalization and the trajectory of narrative

Erotic transgression and recodification of values in Asturias's Mulata

Identity or literariness : the emergence of a New Maya literature

Authoring ethnicized subjects : the performative production of the subaltern self

After the controversy : lessons learned about subalternity and the indigenous subject

Reading truthfully : an American reading of a subaltern text

The burning of the Spanish embassy : Máximo Cajal versus David Stoll

The Maya movement

Central American-Americans? : Latino and Latin American subjectivities

American Central Americans : invisibility and representation in the Latino United States

Conclusion: Forever modern, forever marginal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.

ISBN:

9780816648481

0816648484

9780816648498

0816648492

OCLC:

82673584