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Civilisation and Authenticity - The Search for Cultural Uniqueness in the Narrative Fiction of Alejo Carpentier and Julio Cortazar (Hardcover, New edition)
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Civilisation and Authenticity - The Search for Cultural Uniqueness in the Narrative Fiction of Alejo Carpentier and Julio Cortazar (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Latin America, 25
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The question "What is Latin America?" has been at the heart of
writing from and about Latin America from Columbus' conquest to
present-day discussions and nationalising projects. What this
belies is the inherent question "What is Latin America compared to
Europe?" This book lays bare the underlying logic of a Latin
Americanist discourse through some of the continent's most
influential thinkers, including Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose
Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Jose Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Roberto
Fernandez Retamar, Nestor Garcia Canclini, and Walter Mignolo.
Civilisation and Authenticity presents case studies of two of Latin
America's most renowned and representative twentieth-century
writers, the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentine Julio
Cortazar and reveals how desire to define Latin America is entwined
throughout their groundbreaking experimental novels, focusing on
Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos (1953) and Cortazar's Rayuela
(1963). New research into the poetics of these authors and
jargon-free analyses of their fiction outline how the Latin
Americanist discourse persists in both writers' representations of
the Latin American landscape and people as either Europe's
"authentic" and marvelous "Other", or its "civilised" and modern
counterpart. Civilisation and Authenticity presents new research
for experts on Carpentier and Cortazar and will be indispensable to
students of Latin American literature. Its delineation of the Latin
Americanist discourse makes it an ideal reference for anybody
studying Latin American cultural studies.
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