Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction

Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism.

"None of the novels examined in Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction are viewed as historical fiction in the conventional 'costume drama' sense of the word, and all engage in essentially Marxian versions of history as the contemporary ideological positioning of human subjects. These essays are outstanding examples of literary scholarship, well documented and well grounded theoretically. They certainly make me want me to read the novels discussed that I do not know, which I think is a mark of sophisticated criticism." - David William Foster, Regents Professor, Arizona State University, USA

Autorentext
Fernando Burgos, University of Memphis, USA Marcelo Coddou, Drew University, USA María Josele Bucco Coelho, Universidad Federal de Rio Grande de Sur, Brazil Víctor Figueroa, Wayne State University, USA Ester Gimbernat González, University of Northern Colorado, USA Elda Stanco, Brown University, USA Patricia Varas, Willamette University, USA

Inhalt

1. Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction: The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson 2. Ashes of Izalco : Female Narrative Strategies and the History of a Nation; Patricia Varas 3. In Search of the Absent Revolution: Edgardo Rodríguez Julia's Novels of Invented History; Víctor Figueroa 4. The Galleys of History: Mirages and Madness of a Journey; Fernando Burgos 5. Archaeologies of Identity: Revisions of the City and the Nation in Two Novels by Ana María Torres; Elda Stanco 6. Santa Evita, History, Fiction, and Myth: A Narrative from Another Side; Marcelo Coddou 7. Chaos and Simulations of History in Mujer en traje de batalla ; Fátima R. Nogueira 8. The Plural History of Memory: A Polyphonic Novel by Ángela Hernández; Ester Gimbernat González 9. Unsubmissive Imaginaries in the Contemporary Brazilian Historical Novel: A Reading of Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves; Maria Josele Coehlo 10. El sueño del celta : Postcolonial Vargas Llosa; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson