Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope

Informationen zum Autor Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures. Klappentext A study of Dorfman's life and works and how they are integrated -- the first study in English to address all aspects of Ariel Dorfman's work including fiction, poetry, theater, autobiography, essays, and film. Zusammenfassung A critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer! activist! and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Note on Citations and Translations xxi 1. The Political is Personal 1 2. On Becoming a Storyteller: Dorfman's Literary and Cultural Influences 31 3. An Aesthetics of Hope 60 4. Anything Else Would Have Tasted Like Ashes: From Popular Unity to Exile (17970–90) 93 5. I am A Liar Who Always Tells the Truth: From Exile to Diaspora (1990–2005) 152 6. Creative Criticism/Critical Creativity: Media Criticism and Cultural Journalism 244 Conclusion. One among Many 280 Appendix 1: An Ariel Dorfman Chronology 285 Appendix 2: An Ariel Dorfman Bibliography 295 Notes 333 Works Cited 349 Index 361

Product details

• Authors: Sophia McClennen, Sophia A. Mcclennen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2010
• EAN: 9780822346043
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4604-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Duke University Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies