Civilisation and authenticity
Subtitle: the search for cultural uniqueness in the narrative fiction of Alejo Carpentier and Julio Cortázar
By: Eugenia Demuro
Series: Latin America: interdisciplinary studies -- v. 25
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781433119729; 9781453909348
Subjects: Cultural pluralism in literature; Magic realism (Literature); History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Fantastic, The, in literature; Civilization; Spanish American literature; In literature; Latin American National characteristics; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Other titles: Search for cultural uniqueness in the narrative fiction of Alejo Carpentier and Julio Cortázar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Latin American Literature in context; title: Sarmiento and Martí: opposing Latin Americanisms; title: Twentieth century Latin American narrative; title: The poetics of Alejo Carpentier: in search of America; title: Los pasos perdidos (1953); title: The poetics of Julio Cortázar: politics, literature and the fantastic; title: Rayuela (1963); title: Afterword.