Ciphers of History: Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age

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Gathered in one volume are seven of the best essays written in the last fifteen years or so by the eminent Latin Americanist Enrico Mario Santí. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Latin American poetry, narrative, film, and intellectual history and also explore Spanish Peninsular subject-matter: the Spanish Generation of 98's response to Spain's loss of Cuba in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The essays are introduced by a long text in which the author develops a bracing critique of some dominant trends in current critical practice, and spells out an alternative methodology. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Poetry and the Cold War: Pablo Neruda’s Canto General....Pages 23-65 This Land of Prophets: Walt Whitman in Latin America....Pages 66-83 Sor Juana, Octavio Paz, and Poetics of Restitution....Pages 84-112 Through the Grapevine: Rulfo, Garro, and National Allegory....Pages 113-138 1898: Narcissism and Melancholy....Pages 139-151 After the Revolution: Strawberry and Chocolate, or the Politics of Reconciliation....Pages 152-166 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Fernando Ortiz: Counterpoint and Transculturation....Pages 169-218 Back Matter....Pages 219-277