The Voice of the Masters : Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature / Roberto González Echevarría.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González Echevarría, Roberto, author.

Series:

Latin American monographs (University of Texas at Austin. Institute of Latin American Studies) ; Number 64.

Latin American monographs/Institute of Latin American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin ; Number 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authoritarianism in literature.

Authority in literature.

Spanish American prose literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [1985]

Summary:

A timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

Preamble

1. The Case of the Speaking Statue: Ariel and the Magisterial Rhetoric of the Latin American Essay

2. Doña Bárbara Writes the Plain

3. The Dictatorship of Rhetoric/The Rhetoric of Dictatorship

4. Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice

5. Los reyes: Cortázar's Mythology of Writing

6. Biografía de un cimarrón and the Novel of the Cuban Revolution

7. Literature and Exile: Carpentier's "Right of Sanctuary"

"Meta-End," by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Translated, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes

Meta-Final/Meta-End

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292767065

0292767064

OCLC:

1511484521