Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature

Framsida
Bucknell University Press, 2002 - 248 sidor
Seeking to revise the notion that "heterolingualism" should lead to literary-historical elision, Diaz underscores the ties that bind the works of these authors to the Spanish American literary canon. Through his close readings of texts by Merlin and Hudson, as well as Maria Luisa Bombal, G. Cabrera Infante and Carlos Fuentes, foreign tongues emerge as valid, if perplexing, tools of writing for Spanish Americans.
 

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The House of Spanish I Maskings of Our America
29
The House of Spanish II America the Unhomely
59
Merlins Craft An Authors Ocean Blues
92
Hudsons and Bombals Lost Horizon Expectations of the Unhomely Reader
124
Babel or Explosion in the Library Our Authors as Literary Historians
157
An Afterword
194
Notes
200
Bibliography
228
Index
239
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