Foundational Fictions - The National Romances of Latin America

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List of contents

Preface

1. PART 1: IRRESISTIBLE ROMANCE
   PART II: LOVE AND COUNTRY: AN
   ALLEGORICAL SPECULATION
   
2. PLAGIARIZED AUTHENTICITY:
   SARMIENTO'S COOPER AND OTHERS
   
3. AMALIA: VALOR AT HEART AND HOME

4. SAB C'EST MOl
5. 0 GUARANi AND IRACEMA: BRAZIL'S
   TWO-FACED INDIGENISM
   
6. MARiA'S DISEASE: A NATIONAL ROMANCE
   (CON)FOUNDED
   
7. SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE: NATIONAL
   NUPTIALS IN CHILE AND MEXICO
   
8. STARTING FROM SCRATCH: LATE
   BEGINNINGS AND EARLY (T)RACES IN
   ENRIQUILLO, CUMANDA, AND TABARE
   
9. LOVE OF COUNTRY: POPULISM'S REVISED
   ROMANCE IN LA VORAGINE AND
   DONA BARBARA
   
10. "IT'S WRONG TO BE RIGHT": MAMA BLANCA
    ON FATHERLY FOUNDATIONS
    
Notes
Index

Summary

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. This title shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.

Product details

• Authors: Doris Sommer, Sommer Doris
• Assisted by: Doris Sommer (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.1993
• EAN: 9780520082854
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08285-4
• No. of pages: 418
• Series: Latin American Literature; Latin American Literature & Culture S.; Latin American Literature and Culture; Latin American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; South America, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Portuguese, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Central America, Mexico and Central America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form