A history of Chilean literature / edited by Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López-Calvo, Ignacio, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chilean literature--History and criticism.

Chilean literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 654 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as neoliberalism, migration and exile, as well as subfields like ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies. It showcases the diversity of Chilean literature throughout all periods, regions, ethnocultural groups and social classes, all the while foregrounding its regional variations. Unlike previous literary histories, it maps a rich heterogeneity by including works by Chileans of indigenous, African, Jewish, Arab, Asian, and Croatian ancestries, as well as studies of literature by LGTBQ authors and Chilean Americans. Ambitious and authoritative, this book is essential reading for scholars of Chilean Literature, Latin American Literature, the Global South, and World Literature.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters

Chapter 1 The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia's Cartas de Relación and Vivar's Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile

Chapter 2 Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana and Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado in the National Imaginary

Chapter 3 Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and the Construction of the World's End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646)

Chapter 4 Empathy with the Mapuche: Rosales's Manifiesto apologético and Pineda y Bascuñán's Cautiverio feliz

Chapter 5 Subalterns Find Their Voice: Testimonies by Black and Indigenous Women and Writings by Nuns during the Colonial Period

Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness

Chapter 6 Rosario Orrego Castañeda (1831/4-1879) and the Proto-Feminist Writing Scene

Chapter 7 The Feuilleton Tradition: Popular Literature Aimed at the Urban Reader

Chapter 8 The Historical Novel: Independence, the War of the Pacific, and 1891 Chilean Civil War Readings

Chapter 9 From the Public to the Private: Autobiographies, Collections of Letters, Memoirs, and Diaries as Intimate Descriptions of the Formation of the Republic

Chapter 10 Literature and Literary Markets

Chapter 11 Modernization and Culture

Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature

Chapter 12 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Women Writers, and Intersectionality

Chapter 13 The Verse as Being in the World: Chilean Poetry before, during, and after Pablo Neruda.

Chapter 14 Mapuche Poetry: Self-Definitions and Representation of Chilean Cultures

Chapter 15 The Translation Origins of Literary Mapuche Aesthetics

Chapter 16 Theatrical Trends and Social Changes in Chile, 1910-2018

Chapter 17 Jewish Voices, Chilean Literature

Chapter 18 Chilean Arabic Writing: A Desire for Integration into Mainstream Society

Chapter 19 Asian-Chilean Writing and Film, and Chilean Orientalism

Chapter 20 Croatian-Chilean Literature: Óscar Barrientos Bradasić and Christian Formoso Bavich

Chapter 21 Chilean-American Writing since September 11, 1973

Chapter 22 LGBTQ Writing and Cultural Consciousness in Chile

Chapter 23 Permutations of Selfhood in the Work of José Donoso

Chapter 24 Isabel Allende, the Post-Boom, and Chilean Exile Literature

Chapter 25 Roberto Bolaño: His Fiction of History, History of His Fiction

Chapter 26 Alejandro Zambra and Recent Chilean Narrative: From the Political to Autobiografiction

Chapter 27 Film and Literature in Chile: The Emergence of a Cultural Field

Chapter 28 Violence and Memory: Human Rights, Redemocratization, and Literary Culture in Chile

Chpater 29 Chilean Digital Literature

Chapter 30 Detectives at the End of the World: Approaches in Twentieth-Century Chilean Literary Critique

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-80861-1

1-108-80690-2

1-108-76661-7

OCLC:

1268120081