Author: Joyce D. GoldbergPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Jose Lopez-Portillo Y Rojas: Mexican Elements of His Novel La Parcela
Author: Joyce D. GoldbergJosé López-Portillo Y Rojas
Author: Roland GrassA History of Mexican Literature
Author: Ignacio M. Sänchez PradoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316489809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Mexican literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mariano Azuela, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in Mexican literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature
Author: Scott M. DeVriesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611485169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with a consideration of the way in which Argentine Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s views of nature through the lens of the categories of “civilization” and “barbarity” from Facundo (1845) are systematically challenged and revised in the rest of the century. Subsequently, this book develops the argument that a vital part of the cultural critique and aesthetic innovations of Spanish American modernismo involve an ecological challenge to deepening discourses of untamed development from Europe and the United States. In other chapters, many of the well-established titles of regional and indigenista literature are contrasted to counter-traditions within those genres that express aspects of environmental justice, “deep ecology,” the relational role of emotion in nature protectionism and conservationism, even the rights of non-human nature. Finally, the concluding chapters find that the articulation of ecological advocacy in recent fiction is both more explicit than what came before but also impacts the formal elements of literature in unique ways. Textual conventions such as language, imagery, focalization, narrative sequence, metafiction, satire, and parody represent innovations of form that proceed directly from the ethical advocacy of environmentalism. The book concludes with comments about what must follow as a result of the analysis including the revision of canon, the development of literary criticism from novel approaches such as critical animal studies, and the advent of a critical dialogue within the bounds of Spanish American environmentalist literature. A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature attempts to develop a sense of the way in which ecological ideas have developed over time in the literature, particularly the way in which many Spanish American texts anticipate several of the ecological discourses that have recently become so central to global culture, current environmentalist thought, and the future of humankind.
The Spanish American Short Story
Author: Seymour MentonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520046412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Early Spanish American Novel
Author: R. Anthony CastagnaroPublisher:
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Category : Spanish American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Revolutionary Mexico
Author: John Mason HartPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520215311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Looks at the Mexican Revolution against the background of world history, discusses the causes of the revolt, and compares it with those in Iran, Russia, and China.
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Author: Roberto Gonzalez EchevarríaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521340694
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Volume 1 of a comprehensive three-volume history of Latin American literature (including Brazilian): the only work of its kind.
The Mexican Indianist Novel: 1910-1960
Author: Warren Lee MeinhardtPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Public Spectacles of Violence
Author: Rielle NavitskiPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822372894
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, which were among Latin America’s most industrialized nations and later developed two of the region’s largest film industries. Navitski analyzes a wide range of sensational cultural forms, from nonfiction films and serial cinema to illustrated police reportage, serial literature, and fan magazines, demonstrating how media spectacles of violence helped audiences make sense of the political instability, high crime rates, and social inequality that came with modernization. In both nations, sensational cinema and journalism—influenced by imported films—forged a common public sphere that reached across the racial, class, and geographic divides accentuated by economic growth and urbanization. Highlighting the human costs of modernization, these media constructed everyday experience as decidedly modern, in that it was marked by the same social ills facing industrialized countries. The legacy of sensational early twentieth-century visual culture remains felt in Mexico and Brazil today, where public displays of violence by the military, police, and organized crime are hypervisible.