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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 September 2009
      24 November 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511519376
      9780521372107
      9780521064620
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519376
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 224 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.338kg, 224 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature (2)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature (2)
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    Carlos Alonso's study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel, which plays a central part in the development of Latin American fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. He identifies the regional novel as a specific literary manifestation of the persistent meditation on cultural authochthony that has characterized Latin American cultural production from its beginnings, and which in his view springs from Latin America's problematic relationship with Modernity. He proposes a view of the autochthonous as a discourse rather than a referent. Professor Alonso presents his argument through challenging readings of three works that are universally acknowledged as archetypes of the autochthonous modality: Rivera's La voragine, Gallegos's Dona Barbara and Guiraldes's Don Segundo Sombra.

    Reviews

    Review of the hardback:‘I have nothing but praise for the intelligence and depth of insight exemplified in this book … Professor Alonso’s definition will become the classic point of departure in all discussions of the novela de la tierra’

    Rene Prieto - Southern Methodist University

    Review of the hardback:‘Alonso reexamines a category of Latin American fiction all but explained away in the past. He justifies the raison d’etre of this category with arguments that by far surpass, both in intelligence and ingenuity, anything written on the subject before him … This is a very original, highly stimulating book.’

    Sylvia Molloy - Yale University

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