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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLatin American literature and philosophy are basically postmodernist and it may have been so even before this literary and philosphical trend achieved recognition. In the region, intellectuals belong to either the school...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date 1993) In the following review, Glickman notes that “although Mastretta’s protagonist appears to be conventional, even in the excesses she commits, we are witness to her inner view of her behavior, its...
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From: Hispanic Review[(essay date winter 1994) In the following essay, Alonso argues that Sarmiento writes with passion more than logic, linking this characteristic to trends of modernity and cultural identity in South American literature.]...
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From: Island Studies Journal[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Cheadle examines how colonial texts continue to influence aspects of Latin American literature, particularly how colonial depictions of islands and islanders are still reflected...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Isabel Allende broke into the ranks of the bestsellers with her first novel, La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits), a book that confirmed the link between Latin American writing and the label “magic...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[De Feo reviews New Islands and Other Stories, by Maria Louisa Bombal.] While the so-called Boom in Latin American literature has made available to the English reader a host of stylish and inventive authors, one can't...
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From: Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico[(essay date 2004) In the following essays, Braham examines the origins of the detective novel in Latin American literature and argues that in Cuba, particularly in the works of Padura, it is a product of economic...
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From:World Literature TodayPeer-ReviewedGUAVA JUICE IN LA GUADELOUPE DURING A RESEARCH TRIP to Guadeloupe in 1997, I met the author Gisele Pineau at her mother's house for an informal interview. When we sat down, she offered me some guava juice, squeezed...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedModern Latin American authors have attempted to establish a national cultural identity through literature. However, they have rejected the 19th century European tradition that engendered isolated regionalism in favour of...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe interrelationship of Social Imaginary, modern technology and literature in Latin America is analyzed for the purpose of determining feedback loops in these fields and how one affects the others. The three fields...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 83, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCentral American literature has slowly gained in status in order to reach its current place in Latin American literary history. Despite this rise in recognition, many of the writers remain little known outside their...
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From: Latin American Literary Review[(essay date Spring-Summer 1980) Santi is a Cuban-born American educator, author, and critic of Hispanic literature and poetry. In the following essay, he examines De donde son los cantantes and Sarduy's use of themes...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date December 1997) In the following essay, Hoeg addresses the relationship between technology, science, and society in Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and the works of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez.]...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date Autumn 1995) In the essay below, Kerr explicates the narrative features of Black Novel in terms of conventional crime fiction and its relation to the novela negra genre .] Near the end of part 1 of Novela...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMigrants from Latin America have had a literary presence in Australia since the 1970s and their work forms an important part of Australia's multilingual literature. From their participation in literary competitions...
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From:Variaciones BorgesPeer-ReviewedUno de los mas breves cuentos de Borges, sino el mas,"El cautivo", ofrece al destinatario la posible solucion de un enigma, que es paradojicamente, imposible. El narrador-informador de este cuento plantea el enigma a...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed(7) The fact that Gerardo is speaking of another woman also underscores the problem of loyalty and betrayal. Upon release from prison, Paulina returns to their apartment to find Gerardo in bed with another woman. His...
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From: Monographic Review[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Lockert places Ocampo’s short stories within the context of the fantastic in Latin American literature, showing how she deployed tropes identified by Jorge Luis Borges and...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Juan Rulfo is a leading candidate both for the title of Latin America's greatest writer of prose fiction and for that of the author of the slimmest body of published work. His accomplishment, quite simply, is to have...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Rebaza-Soraluz criticizes A Fish in the Water for failing to discuss Vargas Llosa's personal experiences during the Boom period in Latin American literature, concluding...