Jitrik / Balderston The Noé Jitrik Reader

Selected Essays on Latin American Literature
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8663-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America in Translation

Collection of groundbreaking essays by Noe Jitrik, an important critic of Latin American literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jitrik, Noe

Balderston, Daniel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Benner, Susan E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief vii

Complex Feelings about Borges 1

Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse 27

Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverria’s “The Slaughter House” 35

Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature 64

From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the Latin American Historical Novel 79

Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers 96

Beneath the Sign of the Baroque 114

The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism 122

Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine Literature 154

Autobiography, Memoir, Diary 169

Marti in the Latin American Library 180

Lack and Excess in Jose Bianco’s Shadow Play 193

The Suffering Narrator 208

Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches 216

Notes on the “Holy Place” and “Otherness” in Cortazar’s Bestiary 232

I, the Supreme as Historical Novel 247

Thirty Years Later 263

Notes 271

Works Cited 291

Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Noé Jitrik was born in 1928 in Rivera, Argentina. He is the Director of the Instituto de Literatura Latinoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires. He has taught at universities in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, and Venezuela. Jitrik is the author of many works of literary criticism and more than a dozen books of fiction and poetry. He is currently editing a twelve-volume history of Argentine literature.Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa. He is the author of books including El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas; Borges, realidades y simulacros; and Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (also published by Duke University Press).Susan Benner is a lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University.