"One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia and then in Peru, her lifetime of travel and displacement is echoed in her fictions. Her short stories tell of homelessness and nomadic yearnings, taking the reader from th ..."
"One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia and then in Peru, her lifetime of travel and displacement is echoed in her fictions. Her short stories tell of homelessness and nomadic yearnings, taking the reader from th ..."
"In a style that surely recalls the journeys of exile suffered in life by Juana
Manuela Gorriti, Hernán and the luckless Rosa are banished from protection by
law. Greed, dating from colonial times, continues to drive their misfortune. This
impasse is often resolved as a conflict of tongues. Rosa is swayed by the
deceptive language of the colonial elite and so rejects Hernán; in turn, Hernán is
persuaded by rumors of an African slave ..."
"Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the rise and
spread of nationalism. London: Verso. Appadurai, Arjin. 1996. Modernity at large:
Cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Argumedo, Alcira. 1993. Los silencios y las voces: Notas sobre el pensamiento
nacional y popular. Buenos Aires: Colihue ́. Arijo ́n, Teresa, and Arturo Carrera,
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""The Art of Transition" addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring to both the political transition to d ..."
""The Places of History" regrounds literary criticism in the particularities of history so as to probe those gaps created by reading Latin American literature through either the lenses of a totalising view of a globalised culture or through universal formulae for reading offered by metanarratives. It is history which points to the tension between social reality and the theoretical categories used to talk about it-an idea which resides in ..."
"Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities be understood. Representing a broad range of contemporary criticism, this volume features many short essays by the most well-known a ..."
"Marcus K. Billson and Sidonie A. Smith discuss the distinction between women's
autobiography and memoirs in “Lillian Hellman and the Strategy of the “Other,'” in
Women's Autobiography: Essays in Criticism, ed. Estelle C. Jelinek (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1980), 163. 16. On Eva Perón's autobiography, see
especially Marysa Navarro, “Of Sparrows and Condors: The Autobiography of
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Between Civilization and Barbarism(1st Edition) Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina (Engendering Latin America) by FrancineMasiello Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-3158-0, ISBN: 0-8032-3158-X
"Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento (1868–74), Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the “civilizing” agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of “barbarism,” to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass t ..."
"Manuel Puig's 1976 "Kiss of the Spider Woman," translated into English in 1979 and adapted as an Academy Award winning film, expanded the idiom of the novel (mixing cinema, fiction, romance, and song) and challenged the third-person narration that was dominant in Latin American Boom fiction. Students are drawn to the conversational style of the novel and the melodramatic seductions of the tale, but they need guidance to appreciate the n ..."
"Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was—and continues to be—one of the most important and controversial figures in Latin American history. Diplomat, statesman, educator, visionary, and president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, he also produced two avowed masterpieces of Spanish prose—Facundo and Recuerdos de Provincia. He saw himself as the standard-bearer of European liberalism in Spanish America and the architect of a nation built ..."
"Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was—and continues to be—one of the most important and controversial figures in Latin American history. Diplomat, statesman, educator, visionary, and president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, he also produced two avowed masterpieces of Spanish prose—Facundo and Recuerdos de Provincia. He saw himself as the standard-bearer of European liberalism in Spanish America and the architect of a nation built ..."
""The Art of Transition" addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring to both the political transition to d ..."
"Manuel Puig's 1976 Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated into English in 1979 and adapted as an Academy Award�winning film, expanded the idiom of the novel (mixing cinema, fiction, romance, and song) and challenged the third-person narration that was dominant in Latin American Boom fiction. Students are drawn to the conversational style of the novel and the melodramatic seductions of the tale, but they need guidance to appreciate the nov ..."
""Voces en off sitúa la traducción y sus políticas en el centro de los debates literarios e intelectuales de América Latina en el contexto poscolonial y subraya el papel integral que la traducción ha desempeñado en la evolución de las ..."