Gunshots at the fiesta : literature and politics in Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Delden, Maarten, 1958-
Other Authors: Grenier, Yvon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Politics and literature : some conceptual tools
  • The politics of contemporary Latin Americanism
  • Foundational narratives
  • Jose Martí and his legacy
  • How to read La Malinche
  • Aesthetics, liberalism, modernity : the literary and political career of Octavio Paz
  • From poetry to politics : the romantic liberalism of Octavio Paz
  • The literary intellectual in democratizing Mexico
  • The incomplete end of modernity of Octavio Paz
  • Carlos Fuentes : literature, pluralism, identity
  • Literature and the political apprenticeship of Carlos Fuentes
  • Carlos Fuentes : pan-Hispanism in the age of multiculturalism
  • Political and literary imagination in the Latin American new novel
  • Scenes of instruction in Gabriel García Márquez
  • The private and the public : Mario Vargas Llosa on literature and politics
  • Claribel Alegría and Ricardo Piglia : experimental writing and political commitment
  • A dialogue on literature and politics.