At Face Value Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America

Name: At Face Value Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America
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ISBN: 9780521331951

ISBN-10: 0521331951

ISBN-13: 9780521331951

Edition: 1991

Authors: Sylvia Molloy, Enrique Pupo-Walker

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This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day concentrates mainly on cultural and historical issues. Spanish American autobiographies are fascinating hybrids, often wielding several discourses at once. They aspire to documentary status while unabashedly exalting the self, and dwell on personal experience while purporting to be exercises in historiography, the founding texts of a national archive. Professor Molloy examines a wide range of texts, from Sarmiento's Recuerdos de provincia to Victoria Ocampo's Autobiografia. She analyses their textual strategies, the generic affiliations they claim, their relationship…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/22/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.33" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

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Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Scene of Reading



The reader with the book in his hand



From serf to self: the autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano



The theatrics of reading: body and book in Victoria Ocampo



Childhood and Family Tales



Childhood and exile: the Cuban paradise of the Countess of Merlin



A school for life: Miguel Cane's Juvenilia



The search for Utopia: Pic=n Salas looks forward to the past



A game of cutouts: Norah Lange's Cuadernos de infancia



Memory, Lineage and Representation



Autobiography as history: a statue for posterity



Shrines and labyrinths: a place to remember



First memories, first myths: Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo


Notes


Bibliography


Index