Literature, 1900 to the Present Day
Literature, 1900 to the Present Day Victoria Carpenter University of Bedfordshire 1 General Focusing on the historical novels of Isabel Allende, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Carmen Boul- Caroline Houde, El imaginario colombino: ego- losa, Ariel Dorfman, Sergio Galindo, Augusto escritura, creación literaria y memoria histó- Roa Bastos, Fernando del Paso, Mayra Santos- rica en Carpentier, Posse y Roa Bastos, Buenos Febres, Marcela Serrano, Sara Sefchovich, Luisa Aires, Biblos, 252 pp., examines the narratives Valenzuela, and Mario Vargas Llosa, the study of Columbus’s arrival in Americas, consider- brings together multidisciplinary perspectives ing the works of Alejo Carpentier, Abel Posse, on social justice and interrogates the role mas- and Augusto Roa Bastos from Bourdieu’s socio- querade, disguise, and subversion play in the critical perspective. The volume opens with a social justice discourse. detailed review of the critiques of NNH (nueva Alejandro José López, El arte de la novela novela histórica), and proceeds to examine the en el post-boom latinoamericano, Cali, Univer- ‘polyphonic history’ (42) of Columbus’s travels. sidad del Valle, 165 pp., establishes a theoretical Manifiestos … de manifiesto: provocación, framework of the post-Boom by comparing and memoria y arte en el género-síntoma de las van- complementing it with the existing perspect- guardias literarias hispanoamericanas, 1896– ives on the Boom—the process riddled with 1938, ed. Osmar Sánchez Aguilera, Mexico City, conceptual and contextual obstacles.The three Bonilla Artigas, 216 pp., interrogates the nature writers whose work is chosen as an example of of the manifesto in Latin American literature, the post-Boom are Manuel Puig, Antonio Skár- with a focus on the avant-garde.
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