New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Post-National Literatures and the Canon
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Robbins argues that Fresán combines the direct evaluation of Self and Other contained within the tourist experience with a larger discourse that focuses on the relationship of tourism and empire. In both novel...
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In the 1977 preface to the Ayacucho Collection’s edition of Rubén Darío’s poetry, Angel Rama opens with the question “Why is he still ‘alive’? Why, after new writers have eliminated his aesthetics, abandoned h...
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Since the introduction of radio in Latin America in the 1930s—and, later, of television in the 1950s—mass culture has become a vital part of Latin American identity, and as such has also become an important pa...