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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Dierdra Reber Given the cultural ascendance of visuality, what is the place of the written text within visual culture? Are there ways in which written narrative strategies privilege image over word? This essay studies how three Latin American texts move generationally toward the current era...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 132–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Latin American authors: Peruvian José María Arguedas and Argentine Ricardo Piglia. In the same way that there is a notion of the literary peculiar to Latin America, there is a particular set of challenges that provide a unique shape to the Latin American democratic project. In the case of Piglia...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 546–554.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and literature. Nevertheless, the advantages of marginalization and distance from the mainstream end up becoming precisely the most attractive features in the eyes of an editorial industry and a general public avid for a reformulation of Latin American literature in a global and politically skeptical context...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in Latin America. What is constant throughout this collection is an insistence on realism's aesthetic flexibility, historical variability, and irreducibility to any single genre, period, technique, or national project. Realist art is both constitutively worlded (in taking the material world for its premise...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and Modernity irz Spanish Arnerican Literature: Frorn Dario to
Carpentier (New York: Palgrave, 2006), pp. 240, cloth, $69.95.
In his introduction, Adam Sharman claims for his book the task of "excavating the logic
that structures the debate" about tradition and modernity in Latin American cultural...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 323–325.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jaime Acosta Gonzalez Héctor Hoyos , Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel ( New York : Columbia UP , 2015 ), pp. 296 , cloth, $55.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Novel, Inc. 2019 The emergence of Roberto Bolaño on the global literary scene should serve as a point...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 2011
... quantifiable
value, yet we are endeavoring to ply our disciplinary trade at a historical moment
in which nothing is regarded as being beyond exchange value.
It is no wonder, then, that in a succinct and powerful essay from 2007, the Argen-
tine critic Josefina Ludmer labeled Latin American cultural...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 250–271.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... 2018 contemporary novel photography Mexico Latin America development Comprising, almost exclusively, photographs taken from a bridge overlooking Mexico's Federal Highway 85, Alejandro Cartagena's widely celebrated series of photographs, Carpoolers (2011), captures construction workers...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 473–476.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., but all strangely haunted by the dream of a single Spanish-speaking continental nation. The dream has died many deaths and is now irrelevant in most contexts, but it still informed what Kurnick calls the “continental imaginary” (55) that interested Bolaño. And not just Bolaño: all over Latin American...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 May 2018
... cubanidad” ), both from 1940, would show how Latin America developed new materialist thinking avant la lettre . Against the trend of interpreting Cuban Counterpoint in terms of commodity fetishism and cultural critique ( Malinowski ; Rama ; Pratt ; Coronil ; and others) and “Human Factors” in terms...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of their critical reception over the decades. His often hostile engagement with Indigenous cultures, his ambivalent and even ethnocentric stances on cultural stereotypes, his enduring fascination with the rain forest coupled with his defenses of deforestation, his undeniable impact on Latin American fiction...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 207–215.
Published: 01 August 2009
... -9. < http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/117966014/pdfstart >. Mitchell , David . Ghostwritten . New York: Vintage, 2001 . Soldán , Emilio Paz . “From Macondo to McOndo: Latin American Fiction Today.” < http://ww.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 538–541.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Culture , Deirdra Reber offers an astute and erudite analysis of how contemporary mass media texts from the United States and Latin America deploy figures of homeostatic collective well-being even as they simultaneously serve capital's imperative for growth. What Reber identifies in these contemporary...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as multilinguality was axiomatic for educated Europeans.
The literate were inducted into nonnative languages, usually Latin and Greek first
and then other vernaculars. Language, like clothing, could be changed as circum-
stances required. In Barret’s preface and elsewhere, it is significant that questions...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ( 2017 ): 150 – 54 . Lazo Rodrigo . “‘So Spanishly Poetic’: Moby-Dick’s Doubloon and Latin America.” Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick . Ed. Bryant John , et al. Kent : Kent State UP , 2005 . 224 – 37 . Levin Harry . “ ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Moby-Dick.’ ” Cervantes...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
... . Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine . 4th ed. Paris : Klincksieck , 1979 . Fenster Thelma Smail Daniel Lord . Introduction . Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe . Ed. Fenster Thelma Smail Daniel Lord . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2003 . 1 – 11...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 316–318.
Published: 01 November 2002
...
selected for the study are primarily African-descended US and Caribbean, West Indian
white creole, Indian, and Latin American novelists. But Rody also includes a filmmaker, a
poet, and other writers associated with the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and magic
realism, asserting that all...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 May 2007
... étudiants de Paris et le Quartier Latin (1814–1851) . Paris: Armand Colin, 1991 . Champfleury. Les aventures de Mademoiselle Marietta. New ed. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1863 . Courbet , Gustav . Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine . 1856 –57. Musée du Petit Palais, Paris...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to be more prototypically novelistic than others. If the identification of the European novel as a distinct type of writing (even if it has a formal resemblance to earlier lengthy prose narratives in the Latin, Hellenic, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese traditions) emerging at a particular, if extended...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... investigates the lure of modernist “techniques” and of Latin American literature for Chinese writers in the 1980s. It thus delineates the positioning of Chinese writers in world literature at the time. The concluding part considers the implications of the 1980s shift of value in Chinese literature...
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