History and memory in the two souths :recent Southern and Spanish American fiction
- 作者: Cohn, Deborah N.,
- 出版: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press 1999.
- 版本: 1st ed.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages).
- 標題: In literature. , 1900-1999 , American and Spanish American. , Literature and history Latin America -- History -- 20th century. , Historical fiction, Spanish American. , American fiction Southern States -- History and criticism. , Spanish American fiction. , American fiction , Literature. , American fiction. , Spanish American fiction , Literature and history Southern States -- History -- 20th century. , Comparative literature Spanish American and American. , History. , Historical fiction, Spanish American , Southern States. , Historical fiction, American Southern States -- History and criticism. , Historical fiction, Spanish American History and criticism. , Comparative literature , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , History , History and criticism. , Spanish American and American. , Autobiographical memory in literature. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Southern States , Latin America. , Electronic books. , Comparative literature American and Spanish American. , Memory in literature. , Historical fiction, American. , Latin America , Literature and history , Historical fiction, American , AmericanGeneral. , Literature and history. , Southern States In literature. , Latin America In literature. , Spanish American fiction 20th century -- History and criticism.
- ISBN: 0826513328 , 9780826513328
- ISBN: 0826513379
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index. Introduction: the U.S. South and Spanish America: neighboring spaces and the search for meaning in difficult pasts -- The case of the fabricated facts: invented information and the problems of reconstructing the past in Absalom, Absalom! and the real life of Alejandro Mayta -- To see or not to see: invisibility, clairvoyance, and re-visions of history in Invisible man and The house of the spirits -- Paradise lost and regained: the old order and memory in the Miranda stories and Pedro Páramo -- Conclusion: race and place in identity and history -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
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It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriously into why the attraction of the writings of this southerner has been so powerful. In this bold new study, Deborah N. Cohn addresses this question squarely, from two perspectives. First, Cohn proposes that Faulkner's appeal derives from Spanish American authors' perception of similarities between the South's history and the experiences of their own respective nations. She delineates historical experiences common to the South and Spanish America, including civil wars, defeat and dispossession, regional marginalization, and socio-economic hardship. She also suggests that Spanish American authors found in Faulkner a set of concerns with which they could identify and that, as a result, they were inspired to take up the stylistic innovations characteristic of his writing. The resulting assimilation and adaptation of Euro-American modernism through Faulkner has been an indispensable part of what is known as la nueva narrativa, "the new narrative," as well as of successive movements in Spanish American literature. From another perspective, Cohn's book shows points of contact between works by other southern and Spanish American novelists without positing relations of influence. Specifically, after identifying common, recurrent themes in modern southern and Spanish American literature in general, Cohn reveals levels of a shared understanding of regional history in Faulkner and Mario Vargas Llosa, in Ralph Ellison and Isabel Allende, as well as in Katherine Anne Porter and Juan Rulfo. Her analyses compare and contrast these authors' shared attempts to provide correctives to official, mainstream historical discourse through alternate, parallel strategies for reconstructing, recording, and reclaiming the past. In yoking together the South and Spanish America as neighboring spaces with similar personalities, Cohn advances a daring and controversial thesis that both narrows and enhances the frame of comparison between the literatures of the South and Spanish America.
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