Conquest of the New Word : : Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas / / Johnny Payne.
Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the &q...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Texas Pan American Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Conquest of the New Word: U.S. Experimental Fiction, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the Latin American Boom
- CHAPTER 2 Primers of Power: Nelson Marra's "El guardaespalda" and the Uruguayan Military
- CHAPTER 3 Cutting Up History: The Uses of Aleatory Fiction in Teresa Porzecanski and Harry Mathews
- CHAPTER 4 Epistolary Fiction and Intellectual Life in a Shattered Culture: Ricardo Piglia and John Barth
- CHAPTER 5 Letters from Nowhere: Epistolary Fiction and Feminine Identity—Fanny Howe, Silvia Schmid, Lydia Davis, and Manuel Puig
- CHAPTER 6 Rioting Degree Zero: Radical Skepticism and the Retreat from Politics—Jorge Luis Borges, Luisa Valenzuela, Kathy Acker, and William Burroughs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index