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Informationen zum Autor Noé Jitrik was born in 1928 in Rivera, Argentina. He is the Director of the Instituto de Literatura Latinoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires. He has taught at universities in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, and Venezuela. Jitrik is the author of many works of literary criticism and more than a dozen books of fiction and poetry. He is currently editing a twelve-volume history of Argentine literature.Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa. He is the author of books including El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas; Borges, realidades y simulacros; and Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (also published by Duke University Press).Susan Benner is a lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University. Klappentext Collection of groundbreaking essays by Noe Jitrik, an important critic of Latin American literature. Zusammenfassung Collection of groundbreaking essays by Noe Jitrik! an important critic of Latin American literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief vii Complex Feelings about Borges 1 Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse 27 Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverria’s “The Slaughter House” 35 Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature 64 From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the Latin American Historical Novel 79 Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers 96 Beneath the Sign of the Baroque 114 The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism 122 Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine Literature 154 Autobiography, Memoir, Diary 169 Marti in the Latin American Library 180 Lack and Excess in Jose Bianco’s Shadow Play 193 The Suffering Narrator 208 Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches 216 Notes on the “Holy Place” and “Otherness” in Cortazar’s Bestiary 232 I, the Supreme as Historical Novel 247 Thirty Years Later 263 Notes 271 Works Cited 291 Index 305...
