Research Catalog

Title

Gunshots at the fiesta : literature and politics in Latin America / Maarten van Delden and Yvon Grenier.

Author

Van Delden, Maarten, 1958-

Publication

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Grenier, Yvon.

Description

xiv, 294 p.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Politics and literature > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Politics and literature : some conceptual tools -- The politics of contemporary Latin Americanism -- Foundational narratives -- Jose Martí and his legacy -- How to read La Malinche -- Aesthetics, liberalism, modernity : the literary and political career of Octavio Paz -- From poetry to politics : the romantic liberalism of Octavio Paz -- The literary intellectual in democratizing Mexico -- The incomplete end of modernity of Octavio Paz -- Carlos Fuentes : literature, pluralism, identity -- Literature and the political apprenticeship of Carlos Fuentes -- Carlos Fuentes : pan-Hispanism in the age of multiculturalism -- Political and literary imagination in the Latin American new novel -- Scenes of instruction in Gabriel García Márquez -- The private and the public : Mario Vargas Llosa on literature and politics -- Claribel Alegría and Ricardo Piglia : experimental writing and political commitment -- A dialogue on literature and politics.

Call Number

JFF 09-225

ISBN

• 9780826516336 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0826516335 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008033341

OCLC

241304457

Author

Van Delden, Maarten, 1958-

Title

Gunshots at the fiesta : literature and politics in Latin America / Maarten van Delden and Yvon Grenier.

Imprint

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Grenier, Yvon.

Research Call Number

JFF 09-225