Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity
Selected Readings
©2004
Edited Collection
X,
260 Pages
Series:
Latin America, Volume 7
Summary
This book presents a selection of fourteen provocative and unique essays bringing together the views of exciting new scholarship on narratives and cultural identity in Latin America. In so doing, it balances theory, methodology, and description. The offerings in this volume deliver a clarion mix of original voices and cutting-edge approaches to the exploration of the topics, which reflect diverse perspectives on Latin American culture and literature. The contributions feature analyses of Latin American oral tradition, cultural identity, memory construction, storytelling, literary truth-claims, myth, autobiography, cultural policy and history, folk art and cinema.
Details
- Pages
- X, 260
- Publication Year
- 2004
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820463209
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Scholarship Oral tradition Autobiography Folk art Storytelling
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2004. X, 260 pp., 3 fig., 2 maps
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