Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Feminism and Postcolonialism—New Directions in Latin American Historical Fiction

   • Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

   Pages 1-46

3. Ashes of Izalco: Female Narrative Strategies and the History of a Nation

   • Patricia Varas

   Pages 47-63

4. In Search of the Absent Revolution: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s Novels of Invented History

   • Víctor Figueroa

   Pages 65-92

5. The Galleys of History: Mirages and Madness of a Journey

   • Fernando Burgos

   Pages 93-115

6. Archaeologies of Identity: Revisions of the City and the Nation in Two Novels by Ana Teresa Torres

   • Elda Stanco

   Pages 117-136

7. Santa Evita, History, Fiction, and Myth: A Narrative from Another Side

   • Marcelo Coddou

   Pages 137-157

8. Chaos and Simulations of History in Mujer en traje de batalla

   • Fátima R. Nogueira

   Pages 159-180

9. The Plural History of Memory: A Polyphonic Novel by Ángela Hernández

   • Ester Gimbernat González

   Pages 181-207

10. (In)submissive Imaginaries in the Contemporary Brazilian Historical Novel: A Reading of Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves

    • Maria Josele Bucco Coelho

    Pages 209-229

11. El sueño del celta: Postcolonial Vargas Llosa

    • Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

    Pages 231-247

12. Back Matter

    Pages 249-263

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Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism.

• America
• colonialism
• feminism
• fiction
• history of literature
• identity
• Narrative
• national identity
• novel
• postcolonialism
• realism

"None of the novels examined in Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction are viewed as historical fiction in the conventional 'costume drama' sense of the word, and all engage in essentially Marxian versions of history as the contemporary ideological positioning of human subjects. These essays are outstanding examples of literary scholarship, well documented and well grounded theoretically. They certainly make me want me to read the novels discussed that I do not know, which I think is a mark of sophisticated criticism." - David William Foster, Regents Professor, Arizona State University, USA

Fernando Burgos, University of Memphis, USA Marcelo Coddou, Drew University, USA María Josele Bucco Coelho, Universidad Federal de Rio Grande de Sur, Brazil Víctor Figueroa, Wayne State University, USA Ester Gimbernat González, University of Northern Colorado, USA Elda Stanco, Brown University, USA Patricia Varas, Willamette University, USA

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