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Author Swanson, Philip, 1959-

Title The new novel in Latin America : politics and popular culture after the boom / Philip Swanson.

Imprint Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1995.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  863.009 Sw24n    ---  Available
Description 186 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index.
Contents The boom and beyond : Latin America and the not so new novel -- Manuel Puig and El beso de la mujer araņa : sailing away on a boat to nowhere -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Tres tristes tigres : infantile paralysis? -- Mario Vargas Llosa and La tia Julia y el escribidor : freedom, authority and textual control -- Carlos Fuentes and La cabeza de la hidra : spies like us -- Jose Donoso and La misteriosa desaparicion de la marquesita de Loria : coitus interruptus -- Gustavo Sainz and La princesa del Palacio de Hierro : funniness, identity and the post-Boom -- Clarice Lispector and A hora de estrela : Feminite or realite? -- Isabel Allende and La casa de los espiritus : tyrants and trash.
Subject Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Politics in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
ISBN 0719053617 (pbk.)
0719040388 (hardback)

 
    
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