Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America /
What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this...
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Hanover, New Hampshire :
Dartmouth College Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other
- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus
- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature
- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature
- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists
- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature
- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism
- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction
- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus
- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field
- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.