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Latin America's New Historical Novel / Seymour Menton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Texas Pan American SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292761612
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863/.08109
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prependix -- 1 Latin America`s New Historical Novel -- 2 Mario Vargas Llosa`s War on Fanaticism -- 3 Abel Posse`s Denunciation of Power -- 4 The Instant Canonization of a Bakhtinian Symphony -- 5 The Bolivar Quartette, or Varieties of Historical Fiction -- 6 Bending the Ruled, or The Art of Subversion -- 7 Over Two Thousand Years of Exile and Marginality — The Jewish Latin American Historical Novel -- 8 La campaña by Carlos Fuentes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prependix -- 1 Latin America`s New Historical Novel -- 2 Mario Vargas Llosa`s War on Fanaticism -- 3 Abel Posse`s Denunciation of Power -- 4 The Instant Canonization of a Bakhtinian Symphony -- 5 The Bolivar Quartette, or Varieties of Historical Fiction -- 6 Bending the Ruled, or The Art of Subversion -- 7 Over Two Thousand Years of Exile and Marginality — The Jewish Latin American Historical Novel -- 8 La campaña by Carlos Fuentes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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