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Literature and Subjection : The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973461
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and SubjectionDDC classification:
  • 860.9/98
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Literature, Subjection, and the Historical Project of Latin American Literature -- 2. Foundling Selves, Foundational Others Juan José Saer's The Witness -- 3. Coloniality and the Empire of Letter -- 4. Literature as Presentation of the Subject -- 5. Guzman, Campobello, Muñoz: Literary Strategies in the Face of Revolution -- 6. The Cross of Literature in Paragauy: The Critical Legacy of Augusti Roa Bastos -- 7. The End of Rcognition: Arguedas and the Limits of Cultural Subjection -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Legras views the factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature. He analyzes key works by novelists Juan Jose Saer (The Witness), Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Roa Bastos (Son of Man), and Jose Maria Arguedas (The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below), among others, to provide a theoretical basis for understanding the plight of the author, the peripheral voice, and the confines of the literary medium.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Literature, Subjection, and the Historical Project of Latin American Literature -- 2. Foundling Selves, Foundational Others Juan José Saer's The Witness -- 3. Coloniality and the Empire of Letter -- 4. Literature as Presentation of the Subject -- 5. Guzman, Campobello, Muñoz: Literary Strategies in the Face of Revolution -- 6. The Cross of Literature in Paragauy: The Critical Legacy of Augusti Roa Bastos -- 7. The End of Rcognition: Arguedas and the Limits of Cultural Subjection -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Legras views the factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature. He analyzes key works by novelists Juan Jose Saer (The Witness), Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Roa Bastos (Son of Man), and Jose Maria Arguedas (The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below), among others, to provide a theoretical basis for understanding the plight of the author, the peripheral voice, and the confines of the literary medium.

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