Fuentes,Terra nostra, and the reconfiguration of Latin American culture
By: Michael Abeyta.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780826216410
Subjects: Fuentes, Carlos.; Gifts in literature.
Description: "Grounding his study on the work of Derrida and Bataille, Abeyta focuses on the theme of the gift in Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra. Analyzing how gift giving, excess, expenditure, sacrifice, and exchange shape the novel, he reveals its relevance to current discussions about the relationship between art and the gift"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Old World meets the New : money, usury, and the decline of feudal absolutism; title: The gift of (the) story : gift giving as narrative time, act, and death; title: Ostentatious offerings : the neobaroque economies of "The New World"; title: Markings in the flesh : the sacred bond of writing; title: Conjectural legacies : history, memory, and the reinventions of identity