Gunshots at the fiesta
Subtitle: literature and politics in Latin America
By: Maarten van Delden and Yvon Grenier.
Contributors: Grenier, Yvon.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826516336
Subjects: Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Politics and literature : some conceptual tools; title: The politics of contemporary Latin Americanism; title: Foundational narratives. Jose Martí and his legacy; title: How to read La Malinche; title: Aesthetics, liberalism, modernity : the literary and political career of Octavio Paz. From poetry to politics : the romantic liberalism of Octavio Paz; title: The literary intellectual in democratizing Mexico; title: The incomplete end of modernity of Octavio Paz; title: Carlos Fuentes : literature, pluralism, identity. Literature and the political apprenticeship of Carlos Fuentes; title: Carlos Fuentes : pan-Hispanism in the age of multiculturalism; title: Political and literary imagination in the Latin American new novel. Scenes of instruction in Gabriel García Márquez; title: The private and the public : Mario Vargas Llosa on literature and politics; title: Claribel Alegría and Ricardo Piglia : experimental writing and political commitment; title: Conclusion. A dialogue on literature and politics.