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Literature and subjection : the economy of writing and marginality in Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Legras, Horacio
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2008]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Literature, subjection, and the historical Project of Latin American literature
  • Foundling selves, foundational others: Juan José Saer's The witness
  • Coloniality and the empire of the letter
  • Literature as presentation of the subject
  • Guzmán, Campobello, Muñoz : literary strategies in the face of revolution
  • The cross of literature in Paraguay : the critical legacy of Augusto Roa Bastos
  • The end of recognition : Arguedas and the limits of cultural subjection.