Vargas Llosa and Latin American politics / edited by Juan E. De Castro and Nicholas Birns.

Other author De Castro, Juan E., 1959-
Other author Birns, Nicholas.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Descriptionxi, 235 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Mr. Vargas Llosa goes to Washington / Juan E. De Castro -- The wars of an old-fashioned (neoliberal) gentleman / Fabiola Escárzaga -- Let's make owners and entrepreneurs: glimpses of free marketeers in Vargas Llosa's novels / Jean O'Bryan Knight -- Appropriation in the backlands: is Mario Vargas Llosa at war with Euclides da Cunha? / Nicholas Birns -- Mario Vargas Llosa, the fabulist of queer cleansing / Paul Allatson -- Going native: anti-indigenism in Vargas Llosa's The storyteller and Death in the Andes / Ignacio López-Calvo -- The recovered childhood: utopian liberalism and mercantilism of the skin in A fish in the water / Sergio Franco -- Sex, politics and high art: Vargas Llosa's long road to The feast of the goat / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Humanism and criticism: The presence of French culture in Vargas Llosa's utopia / Roland Forgues -- Vargas Llosa's self-definition as 'the man who writes and thinks' / Sabine Köllmann -- Vargas Llosa and the history of ideas: avatars of a dictionary / Wilfrido H. Corral.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010011095
ISBN9780230105294 (hbk. alk. paper)
ISBN0230105297 (hbk. alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ8498.32.A65 Z945 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold