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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819659303321

Autore

Kadir Djelal

Titolo

Questing fictions : Latin America's family romance / / Djelal Kadir ; foreword by Terry Cochran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

0-8166-8245-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 163 pages)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 32

Disciplina

863

Soggetti

Spanish American fiction - History and criticism

Quests (Expeditions) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Overture: Errant Landscape/Untimely Pilgrimage; 2. Borges's Ghost Writer; 3. Erotomania: Mexico's Gothic Family Romance; 4. Baroque, or the Untenable Ground: Quest as Self-Reminiscence; 5. The Quest's Impossible Self-Seeking; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Questing Fictions was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Questing Fictions analyzes twentieth-century Latin American fiction in the light of contemporary literary theory. Djelal Kadir examines key works by several writers-including Jorges Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, and Carlos Fuentes-and demonstrates how these writers are obliged to invent their own reality.