The Spanish American Regional Novel : Modernity and Autochthony (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)

Alonso, Carlos J.

Cambridge University Press（2008/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521064620
• DDC分類 863

Full Description

Carlos Alonso's study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel, which plays a central part in the development of Latin American fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. He identifies the regional novel as a specific literary manifestation of the persistent meditation on cultural authochthony that has characterized Latin American cultural production from its beginnings, and which in his view springs from Latin America's problematic relationship with Modernity. He proposes a view of the autochthonous as a discourse rather than a referent. Professor Alonso presents his argument through challenging readings of three works that are universally acknowledged as archetypes of the autochthonous modality: Rivera's La voragine, Gallegos's Dona Barbara and Guiraldes's Don Segundo Sombra.

Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. The exoticism of the autochthonous; 2. The novela de la tierra; 3. Don Segundo Sombra; 4. Dona Barbara; 5. La voragine; 6. Epilogue; Bibliography.