Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction

The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-44723-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3503 g

Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weldt-Basson, H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction: The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson 2. Ashes of Izalco: Female Narrative Strategies and the History of a Nation; Patricia Varas 3. In Search of the Absent Revolution: Edgardo Rodríguez Julia's Novels of Invented History; Víctor Figueroa 4. The Galleys of History: Mirages and Madness of a Journey; Fernando Burgos 5. Archaeologies of Identity: Revisions of the City and the Nation in Two Novels by Ana María Torres; Elda Stanco 6. Santa Evita, History, Fiction, and Myth: A Narrative from Another Side; Marcelo Coddou 7. Chaos and Simulations of History in Mujer en traje de batalla; Fátima R. Nogueira 8. The Plural History of Memory: A Polyphonic Novel by Ángela Hernández; Ester Gimbernat González 9. Unsubmissive Imaginaries in the Contemporary Brazilian Historical Novel: A Reading of Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves; Maria Josele Coehlo 10. El sueño del celta: Postcolonial Vargas Llosa; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

Über Autor(innen)

Fernando Burgos, University of Memphis, USA

Marcelo Coddou, Drew University, USA

María Josele Bucco Coelho, Universidad Federal de Rio Grande de Sur, Brazil

Víctor Figueroa, Wayne State University, USA

Ester Gimbernat González, University of Northern Colorado, USA

Elda Stanco, Brown University, USA

Patricia Varas, Willamette University, USA