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Do the Americas have a common literature?

Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1990.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Do the Americas have a common literature?
Durham : Duke University Press, 1990
(OCoLC)551442493
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gustavo Pérez Firmat
ISBN: 0822310546 9780822310549 0822310724 9780822310723
OCLC Number: 21330208
Description: ix, 394 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The usable past : the idea of history in modern U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora --
Form and function in the New World legend / David T. Haberly --
The dialectics of our America / Jose David Saldivar --
The repeating island / Antonio Benitez-Rojo --
Through blues / Jose Piedra --
Plagiarized authenticity : Sarmiento's Cooper and others / Doris Sommer --
The accidental tourist : Walt Whitman in Latin America / Enrico Mario Santi --
American theriomorphia : the presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Villaverde and beyond / Eduardo Gonzalez --
Mysteries we reread, mysteries of rereading : Poe, Borges, and the analytic detective story ; also Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson / John T. Irwin --
Marking space, charting time : text and territory in Faulkner's "The Bear" and Carpentier's "Los pasos perdidos" / Wendy B. Faris --
In-fringe : the role of French criticism in the fiction of Nicole Brossard and Severo Sarduy / Rene Prieto--
Mischling and metis : common and uncommon languages in Adrienne Rich and Aime Cesaire / Jonathan Monroe. The strut of the centipede : Jose Lezama Lima and New World exceptionalism / Gustavo Perez Firmat.
Responsibility: Gustavo Pérez Firmat, editor.
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