The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production

ISBN-13: 9781349373505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 213 str.

Juan E. de Castro; Juan E. de Castro

Opis

The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colony to the present.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Criollo Location of Culture and the Spaces of Latin American Literature * Sor Juana, Lunarejo, The Colonial Literary Space, and Its Limits * Rubén Darío Visits Ricardo Palma: Tradition, Cosmopolitanism, and the Development of an Independent Latin American Literature * The Intellectual Meridian Debate and Colonialist Nostalgia * Jorge Luis Borges and (Western) Tradition * Caetano Veloso: Tropical Truth and Tropical Questions * Reading, Publishing, and Writing Networks: The Hispanophone and Latin American Literary Spaces in the Twenty-First Century * The Movies of My Life, or a Bridge to North America * Epilogue: Latin America Beyond Latin America?

O autorze

Juan E. De Castro is an associate professor of Literature at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. He is author of Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature (2002).