Do the Americas have a common literature?

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Do the Americas have a common literature?

Gustavo Pérez Firmat, editor

Duke University Press, 1990

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This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as "New World" literature, examining it in relation to its "Old World"-usually European-counterparts. This collection of essays redirects the Eurocentric focus of earlier scholarship and identifies a distinctive pan-American consciousness. The essays here place the literature of the Americas in a hemispheric context by drawing on approaches derived from various schools of contemporary critical thought-Marxism, feminism, culture studies, semiotics, reception aesthetics, and poststructuralism. As part of their search for a distinctly New World literary idiom, the contributors engage not only the major North American and Spanish American writers, but also such "marginal" or "minor" literatures as Chicano, African American, Brazilian, and Quebecois. In identifying areas of agreement and confluence, this work lays the groundwork for finding historical, ideological, and cultural homogeneity in the imaginative writing of the Americas.Contributors. Lois Parkinson Zamora, David T. Haberly, Jose David Saldivar, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Jose Piedra, Doris Sommer, Enrico Mario Santi, Eduardo Gonzalez, John Irwin, Wendy B. Faris, Rene Prieto, Jonathan Monroe, Gustavo Perez Firmat

目次

  • Introduction: Cheek to Cheek 1 The Usable Past: The Idea of History in Modern U.S. And Latin American Fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora 7 Form and Function in the New World Legend / David T. Haberly 42 The Dialectics of Our America / Jose David Saldivar 62 The Repeating Island / Antonio Benitez-Rojo 85 Through Blues / Jose Peidra 107 Plagiarized Authenticity: Sarmiento's Cooper and Others / Doris Sommer 130 The Accidental Tourist: Walt Whitman in Latin America / Enrico Mario Santi 156 American Theriomorphia: The Presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Vallaverde and Beyond / Eduardo Gonzalez 177 Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Reading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
  • Also Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson / John T. Irwin 198 Marking Space, Charting Time: Text and Territory in Faulkner's "The Bear" and Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos / Wendy B. Faris 243 In-Fringe: The Role of French Criticism in the Fiction of Nicole Brossard and Severo Sarduy / Rene Prieto 266 Mischling and Metis: Common and Uncommon Languages in Adrienne Rich and Aime Cesaire / Jonathan Monroe 282 The Strut of the Centipede: Jose Lezama Lima and New World Exceptionalism / Gustavo Perez Firmat 316 Notes 333 Index 387 Contributors 393

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