Postmodernism's role in Latin American literature
Subtitle: the life and work of Augusto Roa Bastos
By: edited by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230617667
Description: This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to Augusto Roa Bastos's work and contextualizes themes of nationhood, identity, and history. This commemorative collection consists of articles by nine scholars who reflect upon the postmodern nature of the Paraguayan author's literary production.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Poetry's expository function in contexts of linguistic inequality : the Guarani verse of Augusto Roa Bastos / Tracy K. Lewis; title: Augusto Roa Bastos and Argentine film / David William Foster; title: Postmodernism and its signs in "Juegos nocturnos" by Augusto Roa Bastos / Fernando Burgos; title: Rhizomatic writing in Augusto Roa Bastos's short stories / Fatima R. Nogueira; title: Gender and the state in Hijo de hombre : transgression and integration / Katie MacLean; title: Verba volant, scripta manent : orality and literacy in I, the supreme / Gustavo Verdesio; title: Tyranny and foundation : appropriations of the hero and rereadings of the nation in Augusto Roa Bastos and Jean-Claude Fignolé / Javier Uriarte; title: Rewriting in Roa Bastos's late fiction : "El ojo de la luna", El fiscal, and Los conjurados del Quilombo del Gran Chaco / Jorge Carlos Guerrero; title: All women are whores : prostitution, female archetypes, and feminism in the works of Augusto Roa Bastos / Helene Carol Weldt-Basson.