| Collisions with History: Latin American Fiction and Social Science from "El Boom" to the New World Order Volume 36 Contributor(s): Nunn, Frederick M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0896802191 ISBN-13: 9780896802193 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $26.68 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - History | Latin America - General - Social Science |
| Dewey: 863.640 |
| LCCN: 2001036003 |
| Series: Research in International Studies: Latin America |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.16" W x 11.3" (0.85 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Latin American intellectuals have traditionally debated their region's history, never with so much agreement as in the fiction, commentary, and scholarship of the late twentieth century. Collisions with History shows how "fictional histories" of discovery and conquest, independence and early nationhood, and the recent authoritarian past were purposeful revisionist collisions with received national versions. These collisions occurred only because of El Boom, thus making Latin America's greatest literary movement a historical phenomenon as well. Frederick M. Nunn discusses the cataclysmic view of history conveyed in Boom novels and examines the thought and self-perception of selected authors whose political activism enhanced the appeal of their works--historical and otherwise: Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Augusto Roa Bastos; Julio Cortazar, Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Darcy Ribeiro. Collisions with History demonstrates how their commentary on history, literature, politics, and international affairs reveals a conscious sense of purpose. From between the lines of their nonfiction emerges a consensus that outside forces have defined as well as controlled Latin America's history. Professor Nunn also suggests that, with novelists now no longer very interested in colliding with history, it may fall to social scientists to speak for what remains of the region's past in the New World Order. |