Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics [electronic resource] /
Castro, Juan E. De.editor.
Birns, Nicholas.editor.
Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
Latin America-Politics and gover.
Ethnology-Latin America.
International relations.
Literature.
Literature   .
Literature-Philosophy.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
International Relations.
Literature, general.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary Theory.