Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (self-reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)Bucknell University Press, 2000 - 367 من الصفحات Archival Reflections explores the works of Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Julio Cortazar of Argentina, and Ismael Reed and E. L. Doctorow of the United States from two innovative perspectives -- the new forms of the historical novel and the current debate on postmodernism. It explores North-South relations in the Americas and the question of cultural borders within the New World order. It has implications for the literary histories of Spanish America and the United States, as well as for the fields of inter-American and cultural studies, literary theory, and historiography. |
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... myth is its explanatory and legitimizing power . Quetzalcoatl's myth acts as a supplement to history , covering a space that remained empty in the teleological thought of both Aztecs and Spaniards . All the elements of the con- quest ...
... myth is its explanatory and legitimizing power . Quetzalcoatl's myth acts as a supplement to history , covering a space that remained empty in the teleological thought of both Aztecs and Spaniards . All the elements of the con- quest ...
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... myth and apocryphal history . As Lévi - Strauss suggests , myth is never ahistorical , because it is by nature rooted in the real experi- ences of the community.2 Such experiences materialize in different forms of oral narratives that ...
... myth and apocryphal history . As Lévi - Strauss suggests , myth is never ahistorical , because it is by nature rooted in the real experi- ences of the community.2 Such experiences materialize in different forms of oral narratives that ...
الصفحة 258
... myth may seem incongruous , and indeed has been the target of critical attacks . As Roland Barthes affirms in his study on contemporary mythology , myth confers historical intention and natural justification on its be- lief system ...
... myth may seem incongruous , and indeed has been the target of critical attacks . As Roland Barthes affirms in his study on contemporary mythology , myth confers historical intention and natural justification on its be- lief system ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Carlos Fuentess Theater of Memory | 54 |
Ishmael Reeds | 126 |
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