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Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...

La conquista de America por el lenguaje es el tema de Las auroras de sangre, una apasionante exploracion e interpretacion de Las elegias de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos. Book jacket.

Este libro examina la problemática combinación de autorreferencialidad literaria, revisionismo histórico y pensamiento utópico en varias novelas producidas en Hispanoamérica y los Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad de los años setenta. Los cuatro autores incluidos (Carlos Fuentes, Ishmael Reed, Julio Cortázar y E. L. Doctorow) ejemplifican la forma autoconsciente y amalgamante en que el postmodernismo se vale de la documentación histórica. Aunque se describe aquí la evolución de sus carreras desde el punto de vista de la metaficción y la historiografía, el énfasis recae en...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...