Competing truths in contemporary Latin American literature
Subtitle: narrating otherness, marginality, and the politics of representation
By: Sandro R. Barros
Publisher: Floricanto
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Mountain View, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781888205329
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Latin American literature; History and criticism; Themes, motives; Other (Philosophy); Marginality, Social, in literature; Reality in literature; Antes que anochezca (Arenas, Reinaldo); Cidade de Deus (Lins, Paulo); Virgen de los sicarios (Vallejo, Fernando)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Otra vez Arenas/Again, Arenas : truth, subalternity and autobiographical determination in Antes que anochezca; title: Testimony, ambiguity, otherness, and self-imagination in Fernando Vallejo's La virgen de los sicarios; title: Cidade de Deus : beyond the text, the author, and literary taxonomies; title: Conclusion.