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The Noé Jitrik reader : selected essays on Latin American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jitrik, Noé, 1928-
Other Authors: Balderston, Daniel, 1952-, Benner, Susan E. (Susan Elizabeth), 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subjects:
Spanish American literature > History and criticism.
Argentine literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Complex feelings about Borges
  • Between being and becoming
  • Form and signification in Esteban Echeverría's "The slaughter house"
  • Canon and margin in Latin American literature
  • From history to writing
  • Notes on the Latin American avant-garde
  • Beneath the sign of the baroque
  • The rise and fall of Argentine nationalism
  • Autobiography, biography, narrative : Sarmiento and the origins of Argentine literature
  • Autobiography, memoir, diary
  • Martí in the American library
  • The riches of poverty revisited
  • Lack and excess in José Bianco's Shadow play
  • The suffering narrator
  • Arguedas, reflections and approaches
  • Notes on the "holy place" and "otherness" in Cortázar's Bestiary
  • I, the supreme as historical novel
  • Thirty years later.