Recent Latin American cultural and political magazines have noted the trend of postmodernity in the literature of the region, with a range of responses. Some critics consider it a foreign importation and sign of cultural imperialism. Others feel that postmodernism reflects a culture of mass media manipulated by the dominating classes. But the debate has been particularly headed by a new group of young writers who consider themselves postmodern and politically progressive: Severo Sarduy of Cuba, Diamela Eltit of Chile, and R.H. Moreno-Duran of Colombia, among others. By examining a group of the most representative innovative writers active today, Williams argues that the postmodern novel in Latin America is as political and valuable as its more traditional and modern predecessors.
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There is growing acceptance of the idea of a modernist and postmodern novel in Latin America, but the characteristics, definitions and chronologies are in the process of discussion and debate Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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There is growing acceptance of the idea of a modernist and postmodern novel in Latin America, but the characteristics, definitions and chronologies are in the process of discussion and debate Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
diamela eltit, ciudad ausente, cuarto mundo, much postmodern fiction, metafictional qualities, postmodern reader, mujer desnuda, postmodern writers, postmodern novelists, historiographic metafiction, old gringo, modernist fiction, postmodern tendencies, postmodern writing, postmodern project, postmodern work, lesbian themes, postmodern novels, substantive body, postmodern text, sagradas escrituras Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin American, Terra Nostra, Vargas Llosa, First World, United States, Puerto Rico, Southern Cone, Puerto Rican, Cabrera Infante, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Carlos Fuentes, North Atlantic, Torres Molina, Change of Skin, Ricardo Piglia, Severo Sarduy, Mexico City, Dominican Republic, Prada Oropeza, Three Trapped Tigers, Carmen Boullosa, Christopher Unborn, Alejandra Pizarnik, Alejo Carpentier, Luis Rafael New!
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- Terra Nostra (Mexican Literature Series) by Carlos Fuentes on 23 pages
- Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translation) by Ricardo Piglia on 12 pages
- The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel by Carlos Fuentes on 11 pages
- Change of Skin by Carlos Fuentes on 10 pages
- Where the Air Is Clear (Lannan Selection) by Carlos Fuentes on 6 pages
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- Rediscovering Magical Realism in the Americas by Shannin Schroeder on page 153, and Back Matter
- The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America by Carlos J. Alonso in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Efraín Kristal in Back Matter
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