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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as
a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly
differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to
look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated
writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship
to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across
stylistic and political divides-like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis
Borges, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez-see their work as being framed
within the confines of a globalized Western literary tradition,
their relationship, rather than epigonal, is often subversive.
Borges and Kafka, Bolano and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these
authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ
large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a
look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta
Menchu and Lurgio Gavilan, who arguably represent the trajectory of
Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last
forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of
relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study
is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about
locality and universality from within and without what is known as
the canon.
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Broken Moon
(Hardcover)
John L. Lansdale
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R586
R541
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