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Latin American Studies - Critiques of Contemporary Cinema, Literatures, Politics and Revolution (Hardcover)
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Latin American Studies - Critiques of Contemporary Cinema, Literatures, Politics and Revolution (Hardcover)
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"...a well chosen and absolutely fascinating discussion of Latin
American literary and cultural life today emphasizing the region's
dialogue with the world as an equal and not as a magical realist,
protean revolutionary, or Bolanian construct . Virtually all
contributors are Latin American or Caribbean scholars with first
class credentials. Recommended for library collections." Professor
Helga Gates, UNE Latin American Studies examines variously several
current themes in Latin American creative life: the theme of
disability in contemporary Peruvian-Mexican writer Mario Bellatin's
works, an analysis of the American poet William Carlos Williams
together with hispanophile Waldo Frank and the Peruvian José
Carlos Mariátegui highlighting the intersection of English and
Spanish-speaking Americas; biographical accounts of Latin American
figures, confronting the traditional literary criticism that views
Latin American writing as an echo of either American or European
authors. Cervantes is argued to be the main influence on Gabriel
GarcÃa Márquez rather than William Faulkner, gender is examined
in Edwidge Danticat's writings of the Haitian revolution. Other
writers under consideration include the Puerto Rican novelist
Edgardo Vega Yunqué, comparison of the Mexican Fernando Del Paso's
playful and encyclopaedic style contrasted with the Cuban José
Manuel Prieto's intercultural and new baroque style. Antes que
anochezca the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas openly deal with
homosexuality, and his fantastic blend of fact and fiction which
portrays Cuba, Castro and Revolutionary persecution with passion,
anger and biting mockery, is transformed significantly by Julian
Schnabel in his film adaptation of the memoir, Before Night Falls
(2000). The focus switches to Argentina with the next contribution
that uses queer theory to read the historical and artistic
specificities of the strangeness of Argentine Lucrecia Martel's
cinema. The collection continues with a consideration of how young
filmmakers intervene in the formation of collective memory about
the last Argentine dictatorship. Next, Dos veces junio, written by
MartÃn Kohan, and Marco Bechis' Garage Olimpo, insist on new ways
of representing the past as part of a traumatic experience of
Argentina's violent political regime.
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Imprint: |
Academica Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2011 |
First published: |
September 2011 |
Editors: |
David Gallagher
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
284 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-936320-20-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
1-936320-20-7 |
Barcode: |
9781936320202 |
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