Conquest Of The New Word

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Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the "boom" in Latin American fiction distorted the historical grounding of this writing, erroneously presenting it as mainly an exotic "magical realism." He offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation ...
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Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the "boom" in Latin American fiction distorted the historical grounding of this writing, erroneously presenting it as mainly an exotic "magical realism." He offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors’ careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political rhetoric of the modern state.
Payne juxtaposes writers from Argentina and Uruguay with North American authors, setting up suggestive parallels between the diverse but convergent practices of writers on both continents. He considers Nelson Marra in conjunction with Donald Barthelme and Gordon Lish; Teresa Porzecanski with Harry Mathews; Ricardo Piglia with John Barth; Silvia Schmid and Manuel Puig with Fanny Howe and Lydia Davis; and Jorge Luis Borges and Luisa Valenzuela with William Burroughs and Kathy Acker.
With this innovative, dual-continent approach, Conquest of the New Word will be of great interest to everyone working in Latin American literature, women’s studies, translation studies, creative writing, and cultural theory.
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Juxtaposing North American writers with their South American counterparts from the Latin American fiction "boom," Payne argues that the boom distorted the historical grounding of this writing, erroneously presenting it as an exotic "magical realism." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780292729193
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publication date: 2/15/2011
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Ch. 1 Conquest of the New Word: U.S. Experimental Fiction, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the Latin American Boom 11
Ch. 2 Primers of Power: Nelson Marra's "El guardaespalda" and the Uruguayan Military 37
Ch. 3 Cutting Up History: The Uses of Aleatory Fiction in Teresa Porzecanski and Harry Mathews 76
Ch. 4 Epistolary Fiction and Intellectual Life in a Shattered Culture: Ricardo Piglia and John Barth 99
Ch. 5 Letters from Nowhere: Epistolary Fiction and Feminine Identity - Fanny Howe, Silvia Schmid, Lydia Davis, and Manuel Puig 142
Ch. 6 Rioting Degree Zero: Radical Skepticism and the Retreat from Politics - Jorge Luis Borges, Luisa Valenzuela, Kathy Acker, and William Burroughs 195
Notes 257
Bibliography 277
Index 287
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