... of the evolution of the Carpentier oeuvre (pre-structural), despite his caution concerning authorial extra-textual intrusion (structural), and despite his indebtedness to the Yale School’s misprisions, achieves creative possible “readings,” valuable for conserving the heterogeneity of Carpentier’s world while...

... of the book that Raymond D. Souza devotes to the Cuban novel and three of its contemporary writers: Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The author makes a study of the development of the traditional Cuban novel since approximately 1850 and tries to discover the origins...

... is too extensive to list in its entirety. Some pioneers of the twentieth-century study of music include Vianna, Mystery ; Carpentier, Music . 2. Vazquez, Listening ; Veal, Dub ; Averill, Day ; Bigenho, Sounding Indigenous ; Fernández l'Hoeste and Vila, Cumbia! ; Madrid and Moore, Danzón...

... of the Columbus Quincentennial. The subgenre came to dominate Latin American fiction only in 1979 with the publication of Alejo Carpentier’s novel El arpa y la sombra. Works analyzed in subsequent chapters include Mario Vargas Llosa’s Guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse’s Perros del paraíso, Fernando del...

... of the contributions. For example, they include a study by Carmen Bustillo on Alejo Carpentier and his Arpa y la sombra , modern Cuban fiction about colonial topics. The rest of the studies deal with works published during the colonial period; so this piece seems worthy of publication but misplaced here. Several...

... of essays based on interviews held with ten Latin American writers between September 1964 and August 1966. The individuals interviewed are Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, João Guimarães Rosa, Juan Carlos Onetti, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez...

...; and on Alejo Carpentier's portrayal of Victor Hugues in the novel Le siècle des lumières . Hugues presided over both the abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe and its reinstatement in Cayenne. Once restored in 1802, slavery persisted in French colonies until 1848. Law-rence Jennings argues that dependence...

... existed (for example, the essays and books by Gilbert Chase, Robert Stevenson, Samuel Claro, Alejo Carpentier, José Antonio Calcaño, Juan Bautista Plaza, Lauro Ayestarán, Francisco Curt Lange, Roberto García Morillo, and others), as well as the dated (only music and composers up to the late 1940s were...

... critical essays about eleven outstanding Spanish-American prose fiction writers: Asturias, Borges, Carpentier, Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez, Onetti, Sábato, Sarduy, Rulfo, and Vargas Llosa. Each article is followed by a short bibliography of works by and about the author discussed. The essays, some...

... of Sidney Mintz. The greater part of the book consists of appreciations of Caribbean writers, especially Nicolás Guillén, Fernando Ortíz (to whom the book is dedicated), Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Fanny Buitrago, and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. Woven into the discussion are references to current European...

... place in the Caribbean sun was backward even by Latin American standards, but the Auslandsdeutsche who came there were not at all like those in Alejo Carpentier’s Reasons of State , who “shut themselves up in ‘German Clubs’ and “German Cafes …” (Eng. tr., 1976, p. 104). Germans, whether profit...

... that both characterize the text and mark the formation of a unique creole world (p. 47). Navarro then develops this dialectical approach in a manipulation of the text that mediates the literary models of Arturo Uslar Pietri and Alejo Carpentier. His assertion of the presence of magical realism in Aguados...

... and folk music, Cuban nueva trova , and Mexican film music. Fourth, it is free of academic jargon and includes a reprinted primary source—a 1947 essay on “Afro-Cubanism” by Cuban writer and composer Alejo Carpentier—thereby offering a variety of essays appropriate for undergraduate syllabi on Latin...

... and shielded the homes of the upper classes in the eighteenth century. These structures concealed, in both the physical and social sense, the upper classes from the lower orders. Alberto Flores Galindo likens Havana, deemed by Alejo Carpentier “the city of columns,” to Lima, “the city of rejas ” or gates...