The Untimely Present
Subtitle: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780822324157
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin America; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin American Studies; Literary Studies/American Lite; Dictatorship; 20th century; History and criticism; Latin American fiction; Politics and literature; Southern Cone of South America
First sentence: In 1997, as I write this study of contemporary fiction from Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the "winds of democracy" and market euphoria have swept over the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Southern Cone.