Title Gunshots at the fiesta : literature and politics in Latin America / Maarten van Delden and Yvon Grenier

Published Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) Contents pt. 1, Introduction: -- Politics and literature: some conceptual tools -- The politics of contemporary Latin Americanism; -- pt. II, Foundational narratives: -- Jose Martí and his legacy -- How to read La Malinche; -- pt. III, 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 -- pt. IV, Carlos Fuentes : literature, pluralism, identity: -- Literature and the political apprenticeship of Carlos Fuentes -- Carlos Fuentes : pan-Hispanism in the age of multiculturalism; -- Literary and political 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; -- Conclusion: A dialogue on literature and politics Summary The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world. The apparently seamless blending of literature and politics is reflected in the explicitly political content of much of the continent's writing, as well as in the highly visible political roles played by many Latin American intellectuals. Yet the authors of this book argue that the relationship between the two realms is much more complex and fraught with tension than is nowadays recognized. In examining these tensions, and in revealing the diverse ways in which literature and politics intersect in the Latin American cultural tradition, this book offers a lively challenge to the current tendency--especially strong in the U.S. academy--to read Latin American literature through a narrowly political prism. The authors argue that one can only understand the nature of the dialogue between literature and politics if one begins by recognizing the different logics that operate in these different domains. Using this idea of the different logics of politics and literature as a guiding thread, this book offers bold new readings of major Latin American authors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd Subject Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Politics and literature -- Latin America LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. Literatura hispanoamericana -- S.XX -- Historia y crítica Literatura y política -- América Latina Latin American literature Politics and literature Literatur Politik Bellettrie. Politieke cultuur. Spaans. Literatuurkritiek. Latin America Lateinamerika Latijns-Amerika. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Grenier, Yvon. ISBN 0826592597 9780826592590

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