The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic
(Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks
at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin
America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity
than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world. The apparently
seamless blending of literature and politics is reflected in the
explicitly political content of much of the continent's writing, as
well as in the highly visible political roles played by many Latin
American intellectuals.
Yet the authors of this book argue that the relationship between
the two realms is much more complex and fraught with tension than
is nowadays recognized. In examining these tensions, and in
revealing the diverse ways in which literature and politics
intersect in the Latin American cultural tradition, Gunshots at the
Fiesta offers a lively challenge to the current
tendency--especially strong in the U.S. academy--to read Latin
American literature through a narrowly political prism.
The authors argue that one can only understand the nature of the
dialogue between literature and politics if one begins by
recognizing the different logics that operate in these different
domains. Using this idea of the different logics of politics and
literature as a guiding thread, Van Delden and Grenier offer bold
new readings of major authors such as Jose Marti, Octavio Paz,
Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, as
well as compelling interpretations of works by
less-frequently-discussed figures such as Claribel Alegria, Marisol
Martin del Campo and Victor Hugo Rascon Banda."
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