Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

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.…”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

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.…”
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