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

Author/creator Van Delden, Maarten, 1958-
Other author Grenier, Yvon.
Format Book
Publication InfoNashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxiv, 294 pages ; 26 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Latin American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Latin America.

Contents 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 .
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008033341
ISBN9780826516336 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0826516335 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ7081 .V36 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold