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Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative

By Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
9780521306829, 9780521023993, 9780511527197, 0521306825, 0521023998, 0511527195
LCC
PQ7082.N7 G68 1990
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5593841 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
Edition
1st Ed.
Pages
260\259
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Myth and Archive offers a new theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. Instead of following the traditional categories set up by literary history, Professor González Echevarría explores the relationship of the narrative to the language of authority: the law in the colonial period, science in the nineteenth century, and anthropology in the twentieth century. The book contains readings of major works in the tradition such as Garcilaso el Inca's Comentarios reales, Sarmiento's Facundo, Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos, and García Marquez's Cien años de soledad.

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