Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781316512425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Emily M. (University College London) Baker

Opis

This book shows how Latin American authors find Nazism relevant to thinking through some of the most urgent contemporary challenges.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter Outline; 1. Nazism as Allegory in Argentine Fiction: From Dictatorship to Neoliberalism in El comienzo de la primavera by Patricio Pron and Wakolda by Lucía Puenzo; 2. Nazism and Borges: Contemporary Re-Readings by Roberto Bolaño and Marcos Peres; 3. Myth Interrupted: Identity and the Absence of Nation in En busca de Klingsor by Jorge Volpi and Amphitryon by Ignacio Padilla; 4. Sovereignty, Democracy, and 'Nonselfsufficiency' through Touch in Los informantes by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Diário da Queda by Michel Laub; Epilogue.