Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity
Subtitle: Selected Readings (Latin America (Peter Lang Publishing), V. 7.)
Contributors: Irene Maria F. Blayer (Editor); Mark Cronlund Anderson (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: January 2004
Language: eng; fre; por; spa
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780820463209
Subjects: Latin America - General; Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism; History - General History; Group identity; Group identity in literature; History and criticism; Latin America; Latin American prose literatur; Latin American prose literature
Description: "This book presents a selection of fourteen provocative and unique essays that represent the views of exciting new scholarship on narratives and cultural identity in Latin America. In so doing, it balances theory, methodology, and description. The essays in this volume deliver a clarion mix of original voices and cutting-edge approaches to the exploration of the topics, which reflect diverse perspectives on Latin American culture and literature. The contributions feature analyses of Latin American oral tradition, cultural identity, memory construction, storytelling, literary truth-claims, myth, autobiography, cultural policy and history, folk art, and cinema."--Jacket.