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The Noé Jitrik Reader (eBook, PDF)

Selected Essays on Latin American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

The Argentine scholar Noé Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of Jitrik's work, his sharp insights into the interrelations between history and literature, and his keen awareness of the specificities of Latin American literature and its relationship to European writing. Together they signal the variety of critical approaches and vocabularies Jitrik has embraced over the course of his long career, including French structuralist thought, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism.

The Noé Jitrik Reader showcases Jitrik's reflections on marginality and the canon, exile and return, lack and excess, autobiography, Argentine nationalism, the state of literary criticism, the avant-garde, and the so-called Boom in Latin American literature. Among the writers whose work he analyzes in the essays collected here are Jorge Luis Borges, Esteban Echeverría, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Martí, César Vallejo, José Bianco, Juan Carlos Onetti, José María Arguedas, Julio Cortázar, and Augusto Roa Bastos. The Noé Jitrik Reader offers English-language readers a unique opportunity to appreciate the rigor and thoughtfulness of one of Latin America's most informed and persuasive literary critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822386636
• Artikelnr.: 54816064

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