Literature and subjection
Subtitle: the economy of writing and marginality in Latin America
By: Horacio Legras.
Series: Illuminations; Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780822943532; 9780822959991
Subjects: Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Marginality, Social, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literature, subjection, and the historical Project of Latin American literature; title: Foundling selves, foundational others: Juan José Saer's The witness; title: Coloniality and the empire of the letter; title: Literature as presentation of the subject; title: Guzmán, Campobello, Muñoz : literary strategies in the face of revolution; title: The cross of literature in Paraguay : the critical legacy of Augusto Roa Bastos; title: The end of recognition : Arguedas and the limits of cultural subjection.