Carpentier S Baroque Fiction
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Carpentier S Baroque Fiction PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Carpentier S Baroque Fiction book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Carpentier S Baroque Fiction
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Steve Wakefield
language : en
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Release Date : 2004
Carpentier S Baroque Fiction written by Steve Wakefield and has been published by Tamesis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Carpentier was one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours eyewitness accounts of Alejo Carpentier's travels through Spainbefore and during the Spanish Civil War and the inspiration that he drew from the Baroque architecture he encountered there. The origins of Carpentier's uniquely 'baroque' style are found in his endeavour to create a period ambience in his historical fictions through descriptions of visual arts and architectural settings, and parodies of the literary style of Spanish Golden Age writers. 'Medusa's gaze' is used as a metaphor for the petrifying power of theBaroque as a weapon of European dominance. By wielding the same weapon in an act of postcolonial defiance, Carpentier enabled a reassertion of Latin American culture, and laid the foundations for the 1960s 'Boom' in the Latin American novel. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia
Carpentier S Proustian Fiction
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Sally Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Tamesis
Release Date : 1994
Carpentier S Proustian Fiction written by Sally Harvey and has been published by Tamesis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
Critical study of Cuban novelist and Proust's influence on selected works.
Magical Realism In Postcolonial British Fiction
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Taner Can
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01
Magical Realism In Postcolonial British Fiction written by Taner Can and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). The main focus of attention lies on the ways in which the novelists in question have exploited the potentials of magical realism to represent their hybrid cultural and national identities. To provide the necessary historical context for the discussion, the author first traces the development of magical realism from its origins in European Painting to its appropriation into literature by European and Latin American writers and explores the contested definitions of magical realism and the critical questions surrounding them. He then proceeds to analyze the relationship between the paradigmatic turn that took place in postcolonial literatures in the 1980s and the concomitant rise of magical realism as the literary expression of Third World countries.
Questing Fictions
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Djelal Kadir
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1986
Questing Fictions written by Djelal Kadir and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.
Twentieth Century Spanish American Fiction
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Naomi Lindstrom
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1994-08-01
Twentieth Century Spanish American Fiction written by Naomi Lindstrom and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. Yet these "blockbusters" are only a tiny fraction of the total, rich outpouring of Spanish-language literature from Latin America. In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil). Discussing movements and trends, she places the famous masterworks in historical perspective and highlights authors and works that deserve a wider readership. Her study begins with Rodó's famous essay Ariel and ends with Rigoberta Menchú's 1992 achievement of the Nobel Prize. Her selection of works is designed to draw attention, whenever possible, to works that are available in good English translations. A special feature of the book is its treatment of the "postboom" period. In this important concluding section, Lindstrom discusses documentary narratives, the new interrelations between popular culture and literary writing, and underrepresented groups such as youth cultures, slum dwellers, gays and lesbians, and ethnic enclaves. Written in accessible, nonspecialized language, Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction will be equally useful for general readers as a broad overview of this vibrant literature and for scholars as a reliable reference work.
Concierto Barroco
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Alejo Carpentier
language : en
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Release Date : 1988
Concierto Barroco written by Alejo Carpentier and has been published by Council Oak Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Cuban fiction categories.
The unevenly clustered historical conditions of the Caribbean nations bind us to the revival and redefinition of the ideals of unification begotten by 19th Century Puerto Rican thinkers. Coleccion Caribena is intended to build connection points that will
Celestina S Brood
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Roberto González Echevarría
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1993
Celestina S Brood written by Roberto González Echevarría and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Drama categories.
Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is the phenomenon that Celestina's Brood explores. Roberto González Echevarría, one of the most eminent and influential critics of Hispanic literature writing today, uses Rojas' text as his starting point to offer an exploration of modernity in the Hispanic literary tradition, and of the Baroque as an expression of the modern. His analysis of Celestina reveals the relentless probing of the limits of language and morality that mark the work as the beginning of literary modernity in Spanish, and the start of a tradition distinguished by a penchant for the excesses of the Baroque. González Echevarría pursues this tradition and its meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicolás Guillén, and Severo Sarduy, as well as through the works of lesser-known authors. By revealing continuities of the Baroque, Celestina's Brood cuts across conventional distinctions between Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to show their profound and previously unimagined affinity.
The Routledge Handbook Of Violence In Latin American Literature
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Pablo Baisotti
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-02-28
The Routledge Handbook Of Violence In Latin American Literature written by Pablo Baisotti and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the world, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the pre-Colombian era, and how each has been seen and characterized in literature and other cultural mediums ever since. This ambitious collection analyzes texts from some of the region's most tumultuous time periods, beginning with early violence that was predominately tribal and ideological in nature; to colonial and decolonial violence between colonizers and the native population; through to the political violence we have seen in the postmodern period, marked by dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, neoliberalism, as well as representations of violence caused by drug trafficking and migration. The volume provides readers with literary examples from across the centuries, showing not only how widespread the violence has been, but crucially how it has shaped the region and evolved over time.
The Poetics Of Plants In Spanish American Literature
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Lesley Wylie
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2020-12-14
The Poetics Of Plants In Spanish American Literature written by Lesley Wylie and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature. From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda’s Canto general, Lesley Wylie’s close study of botanical imagery demonstrates the fundamental role of the natural world and the relationship between people and plants in the region. Plants are also central to literary forms originating in the Americas, such as the New World Baroque, described by Alejo Carpentier as “nacido de árboles.” The book establishes how vegetal imaginaries are key to Spanish American attempts to renovate European forms and traditions as well as to the reconfiguration of the relationship between humans and nonhumans. Such a reconfiguration, which persistently draws on indigenous animist ontologies to blur the boundaries between people and plants, anticipates much contemporary ecological thinking about our responsibility towards nonhuman nature and shows how environmental thinking by way of plants has a long history in Latin American literature.
The Fantasy Of Globalism
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : John V. Waldron
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-12-16
The Fantasy Of Globalism written by John V. Waldron and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
My book draws on studies shows how the neo-baroque can be understood as a strategy that allows artists in Latin America and the Caribbean to rearticulate the imperial, colonialist gaze of globalization.