(Re)collecting the past
Subtitle: history and collective memory in Latin American narrative
By: Victoria Carpenter (ed.).
Contributors: Carpenter, Victoria.
Series: Hispanic studies: culture and ideas -- v. 31; Hispanic studies: culture and ideas -- v. 31.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9783039119288
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- History and criticism; History in literature; Collective memory in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Literature and history -- Latin America -- History; Politics and literature -- Latin America -- History; Latin America -- In literature
Other titles: Recollecting the past
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Uncertainties of time; Some thoughts on quantum mechanics and the treatment of the past in Mexican theatre / Peter Beardsell; title: When was tomorrow?: manipulation of time and memory in the works of Mexican Onda / Victoria Carpenter; title: Re-telling history; The reworking of conquest in three recent Mexican novels / Anna Reid; title: Relajo and melodrama in the fictional portrayal of the Mexican Independence of 1810 / María de los Ángeles Rodríguez Cadena; title: Life stories, national histories; Tomás Eloy Martínez and the literary representation of Peronism: a tale of bifurcating paths? / Lloyd H. Davies; title: Being fruity in the big city: re-membering the past in Enrique Serna's Fruta verde / Niamh Thornton; title: Re-writing of history and self-representation in the House on the lgoon by Rosario Ferré / Dolores Flores-Silva; title: National (dis)integration?; One rainy market day: 'integration' and the indigenous community in the fiction and thought of Juan Rulfo / Amit Thakkar; title: Mexican immigration and popular culture in El corrido de Dante by Eduardo González Viana / Audrey E. García; title: (Re)inventing nations; Technology and the making of memory in José Martí's exilic writing / María del Pilar Blanco; title: Science fiction utopia as political constructio in Angélica Gorodischer / Silvia G. Kurlat Ares.