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Hispanic Review, Vol 62, No. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 235-247.

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Romance Notes 54 (2014): 155-56.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2005

A study of the Latin American novel in the 20th century against a philosophical and socio-political background. This course will focus on canonical authors. The novels selected for required reading are to be studied exhaustively. This course will give the student a broad, general knowledge of the development of major philosophical and literary trends in Latin America. The writers whose novels will be the focus of the course are: Mariano Azuela (México), Alejo Carpentier (Cuba), Juan Rulfo (México), José María Arguedas (Perú), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Elena Garro (México), Guillermo Cabrera Infante(Cuba), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico) y Roberto Bolaño (Chile).

Rita Indiana'sTentacled Novels, 2022

Queer identities and racialized subjects in a transnational and multi-ethnic context are central to the novels of Rita Indiana (1977), a lesbian writer, performer, and singer, originally from the Dominican Republic, a country where whiteness, anti-Haitianism, patriarchy, Hispanophile culture, and Catholicism prevail(ed). This chapter explores how Indiana's multilayered works, aside from dealing with the well-researched globalizing topics of queerness, race, and transnationality, interconnect with other recurrent tendencies and subjects in contemporary (Latin American) literature. These include auto ction, urban novel, migration, violence, colonialism, science ction, ecocriticism, and political disenchantment. This approach does not overlook the speci c traits of Indiana's poetics, which takes

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Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2016

The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

This chapter examines novels written in English and French by authors biographically linked with Latin America. This is not just a matter of taxonomy or literary history, but of reading new meanings often hidden by narrow notions of linguistic determinism and monolingual national literatures. The main focus is on works by Eduarda Mansilla de García, W. H. Hudson, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, and Jules Supervielle, but the chapter also considers various English-language novels by Latino and Latin American authors working in the United States, as well as French-language novels by Latin American authors living in France. While these readings complicate the well-guarded limits of Latin American literature, they also highlight the long reach of the region’s literary systems and the complexity of its cultural history.