1st Edition
Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination Literature of the Borderlands
By John S. Christie
Copyright 1999
228 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. The aim of this book is to approach Latino fiction from a wider perspective, and to cross the standard critical boundaries between Latino groups in order to focus upon the literary language of a collection of complicated novels and stories.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Section I: The Literary Context 000 Chapter One: The Narrative Techniques of the Border 3 Chapter Two: The Magic of Influence upon Latino Narrative 37 Section II: The Languages of the Borderlands 000 Chapter Three: Latino Voices and English con Salsa 69 Chapter Four: Dreams and Betrayals: Latinos Between Worlds 105 Section III.: The Cultures and the Carnival 000 Chapter Five: Carnival and the department store called america 141 Chapter Six: Flowers of the Dead: The Latino Quest for Ancestors 163 Bibliography 193 Index
Biography
John S. Christie