Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism

By Bernard McGuirk

Critical theory meets Latin American fiction in this bold and challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through post-structuralist analysis. Focusing on Latin American literary and critical production from the 1890s to the 1990s, Bernard McGuirk highlights the confrontation between theory, politics and literature.
The range of literatures discussed is extensive, including writings from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. The symptomatic differences between and within cultures are illuminated by analysis of texts by such authors as:
C sar Vallejo
Jorges Luis Borges
Rub n Dar o
Pablo Neruda
Julio Cort zar
Jo o Guimar es Rosa
Susana Th non
Carlos Fuentes
Bernard McGuirk holds the Chair of Romance Literatures and Literary Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is currently President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415077559
• ISBN13: 9780415077552
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"