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Lifting the obsidian mask the artistic vision of Carlos Fuentes
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gyurko, Lanin A., Author.
- Series:
- Scripta Humanistica (Series) ; 158.
- Scripta Humanistica ; 158
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fuentes, Carlos--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fuentes, Carlos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Scripta Humanistica 2007
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume is the only study to encompass all of Fuentes' writings, including short stories, novels, theatre and essays, from his earliest short stories of the mythic and fantastic, Los días enmascarados, to his unique and enigmatic autobiographical dictionary En esto creo (2002), and his most significant narrative in the twenty-first century, La Silla del Águila (2003). Designed for the students of Latin American Literature as a comprehensive guidebook, for enthusiasts of Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies, and specialists in Latin American Literature, Lifting the Obsidian Mask provides a highly readable, illuminating and invaluable exploration of Fuentes' complex and uncompromising, paradoxical, and fascinating art.
- Contents:
- Chronology
- Introduction: Fuentes's artistic vision-Mexico as history, myth, and Dream
- Ch. 1. The founding of the latin american novel of the Boom: la region mas transparente
- Ch. 2. A mexican bildungsroman: las buenas conciencias
- Ch. 3. The revolution of 1910 and its aftermath: la muerte de Artemio cruz.
- Ch. 4. Aura: self, double, and the supernatural
- Ch. 5. Morality and double standards: cantar de ciegos.
- Ch. 6. The quest for redemption and the equivocal Narrator: cambio de piel.
- Ch. 7. The cinematic novel of maria felix: zona sagrada.
- Ch. 8. From moctezuma II to Nonoalco in 1968: Todos los Gatos Son Pardos.
- Ch. 9. Cumpleaños: the myth and demythification of Jorge Luis Borges.
- Ch. 10. Terra nostra: the novela totalizante of three worlds.
- Ch. 11. The quest for an autonomous individual and national Identity: la cabeza de la hidra .
- Ch. 12. New world, old world, and the supernatural: una Familia lejana.
- Ch. 13. The death and resurrection of the cinematic Superstar: orquídeasa la luz de la luna
- Ch. 14. Ambrose bierce and pancho villa: gringo viejo.
- Ch. 15. Postmodern Fuentes: indeterminacy and the past as Future: Cristobal Nonato. - Ch. 16 Latin American independence and the new historical Novel: la campaña.
- Ch. 17. Eros and thanatos: diana o la cazadora solitaria.
- Ch. 18. Crossing physical, metaphysical and linguistic Frontiers: la Frontera de Cristal.
- Ch. 19. The feminist response to artemio cruz: los años con Laura Diaz.
- Ch. 20. From the metaphysical to the barbaric: Instinto de Inez
- Conclusion: Beneath the obsidian mask: a vision of openness
- Selected bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-433).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-20765-9
- 9786611207656
- OCLC:
- 1024274879
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