Cervantine Satire and Folk Syncretism in Paulo de Carvalho-Neto's Latin-American Novel Mi Tío Atahualpa

Cervantine Satire and Folk Syncretism in Paulo de Carvalho-Neto's Latin-American Novel Mi Tío Atahualpa
Author: Kimberly A. Nance
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Incorporating a wide range of Latin American literary genres, Paulo de Carvalho-Neto's 1972 novel, Mi tio Atahualpa unites Cervantine and indigenous traditions in both form and spirit. This study places the novel within its sociohistorical and literary contexts and considers the elements of Cervantine satire and folk syncretism it displays. Nance teaches Latin American literature and culture at Illinois State University. The text is based upon her doctoral thesis. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Hispanic Studies in Honor of Robert L. Fiore

Hispanic Studies in Honor of Robert L. Fiore
Author: Chad Michael Gasta
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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The Imaginary in the Writing of Latin American Author Amanda Labarca Hubertson (1886-1975)

The Imaginary in the Writing of Latin American Author Amanda Labarca Hubertson (1886-1975)
Author: Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This thematic study is the only in-depth investigation into the fictional and testimonial literature of Amanda Labarca Hubertson, Chilean educator, reformer, and promoter of women's rights. These imaginary writings include such little-known works as her semi-autobiographical novel, En tierras extranas (1915), the short novel, La lampara maravillosa (1921), the collection of short stories entitled Cuentos a mi senor, the testimonial Meditaciones and Meditaciones breves (1928-1931), and the marginal journal fragments, Desvelos en el alba (1945). A preliminary chapter also addresses the controversy surrounding her published literary thesis, La novela castellana de hoi [sic, 1906]. The study corrects some interpretive errors regarding earlier scholarship on Labarca's perceived feminist writings by examining the sexual (gendered) complexities that imprint themselves in Labarca's fictional work and literary criticism. While she may be criticized for omitting any materialist analysis of power, in her literature Labarca attempted to effect change in the social order by pointing out its contradictions. Paradoxically, a close reading of Labarca's dangerously contradictory and yet amorous

A Translation of Alfonsina Storni's Cimbelina en 1900 Y Pico (Cymbeline in 1900-and-something)

A Translation of Alfonsina Storni's Cimbelina en 1900 Y Pico (Cymbeline in 1900-and-something)
Author: Alfonsina Storni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

This English translation of Alfonsina Storni gives scholars and students in the fields of Latin American literature, womenÆs studies and world theater the opportunity to study rare examples of theater written by a woman on very controversial and progressive issues at the beginning of the twentieth century. The translation is furnished with an introduction that reviews the whole theatrical production of Storni in relation to the historical and social developments of her time and places her work within the context of the literature and theater of Argentina and the Southern Cone.

The Philosophy of Yoga in Octavio Paz's Poem Blanco

The Philosophy of Yoga in Octavio Paz's Poem Blanco
Author: Richard Jerome Callan
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Mexican poet Paz (1914-98) wrote Blanco in Delhi while he was ambassador to India. Callan (emeritus, Spanish and humanities, U. of New Hampshire) argues that the poet intentionally and in great detail translated into his own metaphoric language the ancient practice of Yoga, especially as found in Tantric literature and developed in the Mahayana Buddhism of Tibet. Assuming that readers are not necessarily familiar with Tantric yoga, he sets out its precepts before showing how Paz incorporated them. He discusses Blanco's physical layout and yogic fundamentals, channels and centers in the two bodies of yoga and in the poem, preliminary details on the subtle body in the poem, Paz on the word and language, and other topics. Quotations from the poem are in English and Spanish. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Can Literature Promote Justice?

Can Literature Promote Justice?
Author: Kimberly A. Nance
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826515247

As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of "The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?" Kimberly Nance takes up the relationship between ethics and literature. With the 40th anniversary of the testimonio occurring in 2006, there has never been a better time to reconsider its role in achieving social justice. The advent of the testimonio--loosely, a political autobiography of a Latin American activist who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about change--was met with a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical new form of literature. Those accolades were almost immediately followed by a series of critical problems. In what sense were testimonios "true"? What right did privileged scholars in the U.S. have to engage accounts of suffering with traditional modes of criticism? Were questions of veracity or aesthetics more important? Were these texts autobiography or political screeds? It seemed critics didn't know quite what to make of the testimonio and so, after a brief bout of engagement, disregarded it. Nance, however, argues that any form as prolific as the testimonio is well worth examining and that these questions, rather than being insurmountable, are exactly the questions with which scholars ought to be wrestling. If, as critics claim, that the testimonio is one of the most pervasive contemporary Latin American cultural genres, then it is high time for a comprehensive study of the genre such as Nance's.