Twentieth-century Ecuadorian narrative
Subtitle: new readings in the context of the Americas
By: Kenneth J.A. Wishnia.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Ecuadorian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Anti-realism before realism : Pablo Palacio, the Ecuadorian vanguard, and European surrealism; title: Social realism and early magic realism : "Stone-faced Indians and trees that scream" language and nature as historical self-image in three Ecuadorian novels (1933-1942); title: Early magic realism 2 : sterile fertility/fertile sterility-identity, negation, and narrative in José de la Cuadra's Los Sangurimas (1934) in a comparative context with Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude (1967); title: The "transitional period" (1950s-1960s) myth, nonlinear time and self-negation : Demetrio Aguilera Malta's El tigre (1955) and Eugene O'Neill's The emperor Jones (1920); title: Between ethnicity and internationalism : Jorge Enrique Adoum and Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda (1976); title: Two contemporary novelists : dialogic cycles of history in Eliécer Cárdenas's Polvo y ceniza (Dust and ashes) and Alicia Yánez Cossío's Bruna, soroche y los tíos (Bruna and her family)