The spaces of Latin American literature
Subtitle: tradition, globalization, and cultural production
By: Juan E. de Castro.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780230606258
Subjects: Latin American literature -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Latin America.
Description: "This book examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colonial era to the present."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Criollo location of culture and the spaces of Latin American literature; title: Sor Juana, Lunarejo, and the colonial literary space and its limits; title: Rubén Dario visits Ricardo Palma : tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the development of an independent Latin American literature; title: The intellectual meridian debate and colonialist nostalgia; title: Jorge Luis Borges and (Western) tradition; title: Caetano Veloso : Tropical truth and tropical questions; title: Reading, publishing, and writing networks : the hispanophone and Latin American literary spaces in the twenty-first century; title: The movies of my life, or, A bridge to North America; title: Epilogue : Lating America beyond Latin America.