Practicing Memory in Central American Literature

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ISBN: 0230620361
ISBN 13: 9780230620360
Autor: Caso, N
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: x, 288 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

PERTINENT: The issue of collective local identities is THE fundamental concern that keeps recurring in the field of Latin American literature since the nineteenth century. For Latin American studies at a time of globalization the issue of identity has become extremely pertinent again CUTTING-EDGE: In many academic fields there has been a turn towards theories of space in recent scholarship INTERDISCIPLINARY:The project is interdisciplinary in its approach. It draws from the fields of history, political studies, anthropology, cultural studies, urban studies and geography to build its analysis of the connection between literary form and socio-political referents

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Beschreibung

Through penetrating analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America this book asks: why do so many literary texts in the region address historical issues? What kinds of stories are told about the past when authors choose the fictional realm to represent history? Why access memory through fiction and poetry? Nicole Caso traces the active interplay between language, space, and memory in the continuous process of defining local identities through literature. Ultimately, this book looks to the dynamic between form and content to identify potential maps that are suggested in each of these texts in order to imagine possibilities of action in the future.

Autorenporträt

NICOLE CASO, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Bard College, USA.

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