Rain forest literatures : Amazonian texts and Latin American culture / Lucia Sa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sá, Lúcia.

Series:

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 16.

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--Indigenous influences.

Latin American literature.

Indigenous literature--South America--History and criticism.

Indigenous literature.

Acculturation--Latin America.

Acculturation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this unprecedented study, Lúcia Sá approaches indigenous texts as creative works rather than source material. She offers a historical overview of the impact of these texts on mainstream Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures, detailing comparisons with native sources and making close analyses of major instances, such as Mário de Andrade's classic Macunaima (1928) and Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller (1986).

Contents:

Contents; Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Roraima and the Carib; Part II. The Great Lowland Territory of the Tupi-Guarani; Part III. Confluence in the Rio Negro; Part IV. The Arawak and the Uppermost Amazon; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-314) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9581-4

OCLC:

476095517