A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties

Diana Sorensen

Published by Stanford University Press 2007

A Turbulent Decade Remembered

Scenes from the Latin American Sixties

Diana Sorensen

In the series Cultural Memory in the Present

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503626652

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A Turbulent Decade Remembered studies the 1960s—the continental moment that marked Latin America's full entry into both modernity and post-modernity in the international arena. Delving into scenes of importance for the intersection of aesthetics and politics, the book addresses the impact of the Cuban Revolution on the imagination of the decade, the student movements of 1968 in their international context, and the tragic events of Tlatelolco, memorialized in different ways by Mexico's greatest intellectuals. In examining the construction of the great novels usually identified as the "Boom," the book revises the critical tradition established since the late sixties, rethinking the oft-cited "magical realism," while considering the role of the press, prizes, gendered networks of solidarity and competition, and the emergence of a literary star system. The implications of all these forces of the republic of letters are set in dialogue with an analysis of the major novels of the decade, with particular attention to their literary craft, their manipulation of space, voice, and varied readerships.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Imminent Times: Structures of Feeling from a Turbulent Decade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Cuban Revolution and Che Guevara: Between Memory and Utopia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Tlatelolco 1968: Paz and Poniatowska on Law and Violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3. From Diaspora to Agora in Cortizar: Exile as Continental Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4. Toward a Transnational Republic of Letters: A Geography of Discursive Networks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
5. The Anxious Brotherhood: Mastering Authorship and Masculinity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
6. Rereading "Boom'' Novels in the Twenty-First Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312

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Published: August 17, 2007
ISBN: 9781503626652