Teaching the Latin American Boom

by Lucille Kerr (Editor), Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Editor)

Overview

In the decade from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Latin American authors found themselves writing for a new audience in both Latin America and Spain and in an ideologically charged climate as the Cold War found another focus in the Cuban Revolution. The writers who emerged in this energized cultural moment--among others, Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Cuba), José Donoso (Chile), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Manuel Puig (Argentina), and Mario Varas Llosa (Peru)--experimented with narrative forms that sometimes bore a vexed relation to the changing political situations of Latin America.

This volume provides a wide range of options for teaching the complexities of the Boom, explores the influence of Boom works and authors, presents different frameworks for thinking about the Boom, proposes ways to approach it in the classroom, and provides resources for selecting materials for courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603291934
Publisher:	Modern Language Association
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Options for Teaching , #37
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Lucille Kerr is professor of Latin American literature in the Deptartment of Spanish and Portuguese and an affiliated faculty member in Comparative Literary Studies, Jewish Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Suspended Fictions: Reading Novels by Manuel Puig and Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America. She is the director of the Web-based Latin American Literature and Film Archive and a review editor of the Latin American Literary Review.

Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan. In addition to his books, Narrativas Híbridas and The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco' s Spain, he has guest edited a special issue for Symposium on "New Latin American Narrative" and co-edited Market Matters, a special issue of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction Lucille Kerr Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola 1

Part I Framing the Boom

The Boom and Innovators of the Early Twentieth Century: Teaching the Interrelations Naomi Lindstrom 19

Macho: Teaching Literary Histories of the Boom Debra Castillo 27

Lessons about the Writing Self and the Boom: Donoso, Fuentes, and Vargas Llosa Sara Castro-Klarén 40

Lessons for Reading around the Boom: New Narrative Trends and Traditions Lucille Kerr 50

Part II Texts and Contexts for the Boom Classroom

Teaching Arguedas Gareth Williams 65

Reading Fiction through Julio Cortázar: A Genealogy, a Theory for the Classroom Laura Demaría 74

Instructions for How to Teach the Boom in Julio Cortázar's Rayuela Marcy Schwartz 83

Lessons of the Baroque in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres Roberto Ignacio Díaz 96

Literature and Redemption: Teaching Gabriel Garcia Marquez's No One Writes to the Colonel Bruno Bosteels 107

Part III Disseminating the Boom

Teaching the Latin American Boom as World Literature Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado 121

Branding Latin America: An Introduction to Magical Realism Maria Helena Rueda 129

Teaching Brazil and the Boom David Wiliiam Foster 137

Clarice Lispector and the Latin American Bang Cesar Braga-Pinto 147

Teaching Cuba and the Boom: Politics, Culture, and Literature in Casa de las Américas Judith A. Weiss 162

Names under Siege: Polemics in the Manufacturing of the Boom María Eugenia Mudrovcic 172

Part IV Legacies of the Boom

The Boom and the Americas: A Story with No End Román de la Campa 187

From Macondo to McOndo: Tracing the Ideal of Latin American Literary Community from Magical Realism to Magical Neoliberalism Dierdra Reber 197

The Boom and the New Historical Novel: Continuities and Ruptures Maria Cristina Pons 208

Mediating the Boom: Teaching Latin American Literature through Film and YouTube Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola 219

Part V Resources

Boom-Related Course Materials Lucille Kerr Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola 233

Notes on Contributors 263

Works Cited 267

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

"The attention to the framing of the Boom makes this volume more than just a study of the Boom; it stretches to cover a great deal of territory, literarily speaking, of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. This is a very important addition to the series." —Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University

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