LEADER 03267nam 22004093a 450 001 9910633940403321 005 20230817190035.0 010 $a9780826504265 010 $a0826504264 035 $a(CKB)4950000000715518 035 $a(ScCtBLL)41a90805-dd92-481a-b3cf-14b0da629de3 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000715518 100 $a20220603i20192022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWriting Revolution in Latin America : $eFrom Marti? to Garci?a Ma?rquez to Bolan?o /$fJuan E. De Castro 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cVanderbilt University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource 330 $aPROSE Awards Literature Subject Category Winner, 2020

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. Writing Revolution in Latin America is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm.

From Mexico to Chile, the gradual ideological evolution from a revolutionary to a neoliberal mainstream was a consequence of, on the one hand, the political hardening of the Cuban Revolution beginning in the late 1960s, and, on the other, the repression, dictatorships, and economic crises of the 1970s and beyond. Not only was socialist revolution far from the utopia many believed, but the notion that guerrilla uprisings would lead to an easy socialism proved to be unfounded. Similarly, the repressive Pinochet dictatorship in Chile led to unfathomable tragedy and social mutation.

This double-edged phenomenon of revolutionary disillusionment became highly personal for Latin American authors inside and outside Castro's and Pinochet's dominion. Revolution was more than a foreign affair, it was the stuff of everyday life and, therefore, of fiction.

Juan De Castro's expansive study begins ahead of the century with Jose? Marti? in Cuba and continues through the likes of Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Gabriel Garci?a Ma?rquez in Colombia, and Roberto Bolan?o in Mexico (by way of Chile). The various, often contradictory ways the authors convey this precarious historical moment speaks in equal measure to the social circumstances into which these authors were thrust and to the fundamental differences in the ways they themselves witnessed history. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 700 $aDe Castro$b Juan E$01271521 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910633940403321 996 $aWriting Revolution in Latin America$92995272 997 $aUNINA