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:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Summary:

In Taking Their Word, Arias complicates notions of the cultural production of Central America. Arias demonstrates that Central America and its literature are marked by an indigenousness that has never before been fully theorized or critically grasped. With this groundbreaking work, Arias establishes the importance of Central American literature and provides a frame for future studies of the region's culture.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5444-1

OCLC:

476125716