The Spaces of Latin American Literature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Sor Juana, Lunarejo, and the Colonial Literary Space and Its Limits

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 1-16

3. Rubén Darío Visits Ricardo Palma: Tradition, Cosmopolitanism, and the Development of an Independent Latin American Literature

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 17-32

4. The Intellectual Meridian Debate and Colonialist Nostalgia

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 33-47

5. Jorge Luis Borges and (Western) Tradition

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 49-64

6. Caetano Veloso: Tropical Truth and Tropical Questions

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 65-90

7. Reading, Publishing, and Writing Networks: The Hispanophone and Latin American Literary Spaces in the Twenty-First Century

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 91-104

8. The Movies of My Life; or, a Bridge to North America

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 105-128

9. Epilogue: Latin America Beyond Latin America?

   • Juan E. De Castro

   Pages 129-140

10. Back Matter

    Pages 141-213

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The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colony to the present. De Castro looks at writers and intellectual polemics that serve as markers of the region's cultural evolution. Among the writers and artists studied are Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Caetano Veloso, and Alberto Fuguet. This book proposes an analysis of the region's literature rooted in its specific cultural, political, and economic locations.

• America
• Amerikanische Literatur
• culture
• Tradition

Juan E. De Castro is an associate professor of Literature at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. He is author of Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature (2002).

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