Noe Jitrik

The Noé Jitrik Reader

Selected Essays on Latin American Literature
Herausgeber: Balderston, Daniel / Übersetzer: Benner, Susan E

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of groundbreaking essays by Noe Jitrik, an important critic of Latin American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335337
• ISBN-10: 0822335336
• Artikelnr.: 22232431

Autorenporträt

Noé Jitrik

Inhaltsangabe

Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief vii
Complex Feelings about Borges 1
Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse 27
Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverria’s “The Slaughter House” 35
Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature 64
From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the
Latin American Historical Novel 79
Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers 96
Beneath the Sign of the Baroque 114
The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism 122
Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine
Literature 154
Autobiography, Memoir, Diary 169
Marti in the Latin American Library 180
Lack and Excess in Jose Bianco’s Shadow Play 193
The Suffering Narrator 208
Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches 216
Notes on the “Holy Place” and “Otherness” in Cortazar’s Bestiary 232
I, the Supreme as Historical Novel 247
Thirty Years Later 263
Notes 271
Works Cited 291
Index 305