Redefining Latin American historical fiction : the impact of feminism and postcolonialism / edited by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- viii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to adequately take feminism and postcolonialism into account. In this collection of essays, noted scholars use these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes four categories: fiction about the search for national identity, magical realism, narrative with historical intertextuality, and symbolic historical fiction. These categories show how the novel evolves through a new emphasis on women and the colonial subject in key texts by Claribel Alegría, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, Cristina Peri Rossi, Reinaldo Arenas, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Ana Teresa Torres, Tomís Eloy Martínez, Ana María Gonçalves, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Book jacket.
- Contents:
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- 1 Introduction: Feminism and Postcolonialism-New Directions in Latin American Historical Fiction / Helene Carol Weldt-Basson Weldt-Basson, Helene Carol 1
- 2 Ashes of Izalco: Female Narrative Strategies and the History of a Nation / Patricia Varas Varas, Patricia 47
- 3 In Search of the Absent Revolution: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliás Novels of Invented History / Victor Figueroa Figueroa, Victor 65
- 4 The Galleys of History: Mirages and Madness of a Journey / Fernando Burgos Burgos, Fernando 93
- 5 Archaeologies of Identity: Revisions of the City and the Nation in Two Novels by Ana Teresa Torres / Elda Stanco Stanco, Elda 117
- 6 Santa Evita, History, Fiction, and Myth: A Narrative from Another Side / Marcelo Coddou Coddou, Marcelo 137
- 7 Chaos and Simulations of History in Mujer en traje de batalla / Fátima R. Nogueira Nogueira, Fátima R. 159
- 8 The Plural History of Memory: A Polyphonic Novel by Ángela Hernández / Ester Gimbernat González González, Ester Gimbernat 181
- 9 (In)submissive Imaginaries in the Contemporary Brazilian Historical Novel: A Reading of Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves / Maria Josele Bucco Coelho Coelho, Maria Josele Bucco 209
- 10 El sueño del celta: Postcolonial Vargas Llosa / Helene Carol Weldt-Basson Weldt-Basson, Helene Carol 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- OCLC:
- 826526466
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