False documents : inter-American cultural history, literature, and the lost decade (1975-1992) / Frans Weiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiser, Frans, author.

Series:

Global Latin/o Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Literature and history--Latin America--History--20th century.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.

Comparative literature.

History.

United States.

Comparative literature--Latin American and American.

Comparative literature--American and Latin American.

Latin America--Historiography.

Latin America.

Historiography.

United States--Historiography.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Examines the work of writers and journalists from Hispanic America, Brazil, and the US from the 1970s to 1990s who appropriated history as a tool for repositioning democracies in a hemispheric context in order to expose how governments controlled and misrepresented events"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Interdependent Methods; Postwar Cultural History, Historical literature, and False Documents p. 27

Chapter 2 History's Return: Literary Revisionism in North America, Hispanic America, and Brazil during the Lost Decade p. 47

Chapter 3 The Ends of Argentine Democracy: The False Memoir(s) and Cultural Hybridity behind Tomás Eloy Martínez's The Perón Novel p. 73

Chapter 4 The "Dialectics" of Feminist Caribbean History: Laura Antillano, José Martí, and the Venezuelan Lost Decade p. 97

Chapter 5 History at the Periphery: Postdictatorial Literature and the Abandoned Generation of Ana Maria Machado's Tropical Sun of Liberty p. 125

Chapter 6 Allegorizing Brazilian History: Silviano Santiago's In Liberty, Invisible Texts, and Ideological Patrols p. 149

Chapter 7 The Many Deaths of Che Guevara: Jay Cantor's Anxiety of Origins and the Limits of Transnationalism p. 173

Chapter 8 Renewing History? John Updike's Critique of Cultural Studies and the Two Americas in Memories of the Ford Administration p. 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.

ISBN:

9780814214367

0814214363

9780814255759

0814255752

OCLC:

1119612594