Gunshots at the Fiesta Literature and Politics in Latin America

Name: Gunshots at the Fiesta Literature and Politics in Latin America
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ISBN: 9780826516343

ISBN-10: 0826516343

ISBN-13: 9780826516343

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Authors: Maarten van Delden, Yvon Grenier

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The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world. The apparently seamless blending of literature and politics is reflected in the explicitly political content of much of the continent's writing, as well as in the highly visible political roles played by many Latin American intellectuals.Yet the authors of this book argue that the relationship between the two realms is much more complex and fraught with tension than is nowadays…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 8/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Maarten van Delden is now associate professor of Latin American literature at USC.

Yvon Grenier is a professor in the department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University and author ofGuerre et pouvoir au Salvador(1994),The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador(1999),Art and Politics: Octavio Paz and the Pursuit of Freedom(2001; Spanish trans. in 2004), and Editor (selection of texts and introduction) ofOctavio Paz, Sueï¿½o en libertad, escritos politicos(2001).



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction



Politics and Literature Some Conceptual Tools



The Politics of Contemporary Latin Americanism



Foundational Narratives



Josï¿½ Marti and His Legacy



How to Read LaMalinche



Aesthetics, Liberalism, Modernity


The Literary and Political Career of Octavio Paz



From Poetry to Politics The Romantic Liberalism ofOctavio Paz



The Literary Intellectual in Democratizing Mexico



The Incomplete End of Modernity of Octavio Paz






Literature, Pluralism, Identity



Literature and the Political Apprenticeship of Carlos Fuentes



Carlos Fuentes Pan-Hispanism in the Age of Multiculturalism



Literary and Political Imagination in the Latin American New Novel



Scenes of Instruction in Gabriel Garcï¿½a Mï¿½rquez



The Private and the Public Mario Vargas Llosa on Literature and Politics






Conclusion A Dialogue on Literature and Politics


Notes


Bibliography


Index