After the Nation : Postnational Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon / Pedro García-Caro ; foreword by Jean Franco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garcia-Caro, Pedro, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuentes, Carlos--Criticism and interpretation.

Fuentes, Carlos.

Pynchon, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.

Pynchon, Thomas.

Nationalism in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Summary:

After the Nation proposes a series of groundbreaking new approaches to novels, essays, and short stories by Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon within the framework of a hemispheric American studies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword by Jean Franco

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Bordering Can(n)ons: Postnational Satire in the United States and Mexico

Part One: Narrative Undergrounds in the Postnational City

Chapter 1. Modernity Versus Its National Demons: La región más transparente

Chapter 2. Innocents Abroad and at Home: The Profane History of American Modernity in V.

Part Two: Dissenting from the Nation: The New Left

Chapter 3. La muerte de Artemio Cruz and the Agonic Mexican Nation

Chapter 4. The Crying of Lot 49 and the Nationalist Colonization of the Unconscious

Chapter 5. Epidermic Metamorphosis? Shedding the Nation in Cambio de piel

Part Three: (Post)Colonial Enlightened Origins: Americanism Born

Chapter 6. Enlightened Nationalists: The Conquest Rides Again in La campaña

Chapter 7. Surveying American Exceptionalism in Mason &amp

Dixon

Conclusion - Beyond the Nation

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8101-6783-2

OCLC:

933516082