LEADER 03955nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910812162303321 005 20230725041526.0 010 $a0-292-79303-0 024 7 $a10.7560/721319 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006543 035 $a(OCoLC)609699228 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10364066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000422343 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270384 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422343 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10431602 035 $a(PQKB)10858666 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443448 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4690 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443448 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364066 035 $a(DE-B1597)587582 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292793033 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006543 100 $a20090713d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLove and politics in the contemporary Spanish American novel$b[electronic resource] /$fby Ani?bal Gonza?lez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-72131-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION From Testimonial Narrative to the New Sentimental Novel: Barnet and Poniatowska -- $tONE Patriotic Passion: Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows -- $tTWO Love or Friendship? Tarzan's Tonsillitis by Alfredo Bryce Echenique -- $tTHREE Journey Back to the Source of Love: García Márquez's Of Love and Other Demons -- $tFOUR Recipes for Romance: Laura Esquivel, Luis Sepúlveda, and Marcela Serrano -- $tFIVE The Importance of Being Sentimental: Antonio Skármeta's Love-Fifteen and Luis Rafael Sánchez's La importancia de llamarse Daniel Santos -- $tAppendix Some Spanish American Novels with Amorous or Sentimental Themes (1969-2003) -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED -- $tINDEX 330 $aThe Latin American Literary Boom was marked by complex novels steeped in magical realism and questions of nationalism, often with themes of surreal violence. In recent years, however, those revolutionary projects of the sixties and seventies have given way to quite a different narrative vision and ideology. Dubbed the new sentimentalism, this trend is now keenly elucidated in Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel. Offering a rich account of the rise of this new mode, as well as its political and cultural implications, Aníbal González delivers a close reading of novels by Miguel Barnet, Elena Poniatowska, Isabel Allende, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Gabriel García Márquez, Antonio Skármeta, Luis Rafael Sánchez, and others. González proposes that new sentimental novels are inspired principally by a desire to heal the division, rancor, and fear produced by decades of social and political upheaval. Valuing pop culture above the avant-garde, such works also tend to celebrate agape-the love of one's neighbor-while denouncing the negative effects of passion (eros). Illuminating these and other aspects of post-Boom prose, Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel takes a fresh look at contemporary works. 606 $aSpanish American fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature 615 0$aSpanish American fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 676 $a863/.64093543 700 $aGonza?lez$b Ani?bal$0173950 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812162303321 996 $aLove and politics in the contemporary Spanish American novel$93965766 997 $aUNINA