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Mestizo Nations

Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature

By: Juan E. De Castro

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Mestizo Nations

Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature

By: Juan E. De Castro

Nationality in Latin America has long been entwined with questions of racial identity. Just as American-born colonial elites grounded their struggle for independence from Spain and Portugal in the history of Amerindian resistance, constructions of nationality were based on the notion of the fusion of populations heterogeneous in culture, race, and language. But this rhetorical celebration of difference was framed by a real-life pressure to assimilate into cultures always defined by Iberian American elites. In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire history and regional landscape of Latin American culture in its Western, indigenous, and neo-African traditions from Independence to the present. Through them, he delineates some of the ambiguities and contradictions that have beset this discourse. Among texts considered are the Indianist novel Iracema by the nineteenth-century Brazilian author José de Alencar; the Tradiciones peruanas, Peruvian Ricardo Palma's fictionalizations of national difference; and historical and sociological essays by the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui and the Brazilian intellectual Gilberto Freyre. And because questions raised by this discourse are equally relevant to postmodern concerns with national and transnational heterogeneity, De Castro also analyzes such recent examples as the Cuban dance band Los Van Van's use of Afrocentric lyrics; Richard Rodriguez's interpretations of North American reality; and points of contact and divergence between José María Arguedas's novel The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below and writings of Gloria Anzaldúa and Julia Kristeva. By updating the concept of mestizaje as a critical tool for analyzing literary text and cultural trends—incorporating not only race, culture, and nationality but also gender, language, and politics—De Castro shows the implications of this Latin American discursive tradition for current critical debates in cultural and area studies. Mestizo Nations contains important insights for all Latin Americanists as a tool for understanding racial relations and cultural hybridization, creating not only an important commentary on Latin America but also a critique of American life in the age of multiculturalism.

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0816551014

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Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom

Latin American Authors and the Western Canon

By: Juan E. De Castro

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Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom

Latin American Authors and the Western Canon

By: Juan E. De Castro

At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across stylistic and political divides—like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, or Gabriel García Márquez—see their work as being framed within the confines of a globalized Western literary tradition, their relationship, rather than epigonal, is often subversive. Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchú and Lurgio Gavilán, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826502504

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9780826502506

Libro de Buen Amor

By: Juan Ruiz

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Libro de Buen Amor

By: Juan Ruiz

This edition is designed to open the enchanting book to all readers of modern Spanish. Raymond Willis has regularized and brought the medieval text as close as possible, without falsification, to modern canons. The text is printed integrally, without annotation. Mr. Willis' English paraphrase, printed on facing pages, is written in syntactical constructions that exactly parallel the Spanish verses, and thus functions as both a glossary and a key to puzzling constructions. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400870968

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The Spaces of Latin American Literature

Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production

By: Juan E. De Castro

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The Spaces of Latin American Literature

Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production

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The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colony to the present. De Castro looks at writers and intellectual polemics that serve as markers of the region's cultural evolution. Among the writers and artists studied are Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Caetano Veloso, and Alberto Fuguet. This book proposes an analysis of the region's literature rooted in its specific cultural, political, and economic locations.

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Springer

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0230611788

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Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

By: Juan E. De Castro

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Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

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Bread and Beauty is a study of the works and life of José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), the autodidact Peruvian scholar and revolutionary activist frequently considered the most important Latin American Marxist.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America

By: Juan E. De Castro

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America

By: Juan E. De Castro

Examines the life and writings of Mario Vargas Llosa, an outspoken author from Peru, known for his political writings as well as his literary works, who at one time was scheduled to debate Hugo Chavez of Venezuela himself over matters of socialism versus free market neoliberalism--Chavez called the debate off, however, yielding a slough of questions about the late president's convictions about his political views and praise for the strength of Vargas Llosa's.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816529485

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Writing Revolution in Latin America

From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño

By: Juan E. De Castro

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Writing Revolution in Latin America

From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño

By: Juan E. De Castro

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. Writing Revolution in Latin America is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm. From Mexico to Chile, the gradual ideological evolution from a revolutionary to a neoliberal mainstream was a consequence of, on the one hand, the political hardening of the Cuban Revolution beginning in the late 1960s, and, on the other, the repression, dictatorships, and economic crises of the 1970s and beyond. Not only was socialist revolution far from the utopia many believed, but the notion that guerrilla uprisings would lead to an easy socialism proved to be unfounded. Similarly, the repressive Pinochet dictatorship in Chile led to unfathomable tragedy and social mutation. This double-edged phenomenon of revolutionary disillusionment became highly personal for Latin American authors inside and outside Castro's and Pinochet's dominion. Revolution was more than a foreign affair, it was the stuff of everyday life and, therefore, of fiction. Juan De Castro's expansive study begins ahead of the century with José Martí in Cuba and continues through the likes of Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Gabriel García Márquez in Colombia, and Roberto Bolaño in Mexico (by way of Chile). The various, often contradictory ways the authors convey this precarious historical moment speaks in equal measure to the social circumstances into which these authors were thrust and to the fundamental differences in the ways they themselves witnessed history.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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Writing Revolution in Latin America

From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño

By: Juan E. De Castro

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From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño

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Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

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The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio

A Translation of Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor

By: Juan Manuel

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The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio

A Translation of Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor

By: Juan Manuel

Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems. His fourteenth-century book, known as El Conde lucanor, is considered by many to be the purest Spanish prose before the immortal Don Quixote of Cervantes written two centuries later. He found inspiration for his tales in classical and eastern literatures, Spanish history, and folklore. His stories are not translations, but are his retelling of some of the best stories in existence. The translation succeeds in making the author speak as clearly to the modern reader as to readers of his own time.

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University Press of Kentucky

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America

By: Juan E. De Castro

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Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America

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Mestizo Nations

Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature

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Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature

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The Spaces of Latin American Literature

Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production

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Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production

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Book's by Juan E. De Castro

Mestizo Nations

Mestizo Nations

Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom

Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom

Libro de Buen Amor

Libro de Buen Amor

The Spaces of Latin American Literature

The Spaces of Latin American Literature

Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing Revolution in Latin America

Writing Revolution in Latin America

Writing Revolution in Latin America

Writing Revolution in Latin America

Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio

The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mestizo Nations

Mestizo Nations

The Spaces of Latin American Literature

The Spaces of Latin American Literature

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