Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical GuideLarry McCaffery The scope of the work is broad, with European and Latin American influences well represented. Recommended for collections that emphasize fiction of the past two decades. Library Journal |
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... America in the contemporary period . There is no doubt that Latin American nar- rative has exercised a powerful influence on American writing . Translations brought the work of Jorge Luis Borges here in the early 1960s ; García ...
... America in the contemporary period . There is no doubt that Latin American nar- rative has exercised a powerful influence on American writing . Translations brought the work of Jorge Luis Borges here in the early 1960s ; García ...
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... American culture as the product of European ( or Western ) history , suf- fering by comparison in a kind of culturally unequal development.2 Latin American literature , for example , may be seen as an echo of Western literature : Jorge ...
... American culture as the product of European ( or Western ) history , suf- fering by comparison in a kind of culturally unequal development.2 Latin American literature , for example , may be seen as an echo of Western literature : Jorge ...
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... American past . If the Boom novelists imagine themselves suddenly born into full maturity , like Athena from Zeus ' head , this may indicate how secure their position is in an American tradition of writing . Similarly , other American ...
... American past . If the Boom novelists imagine themselves suddenly born into full maturity , like Athena from Zeus ' head , this may indicate how secure their position is in an American tradition of writing . Similarly , other American ...
Contents
Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing | 5 |
Science Fiction in the Postmodern | 23 |
The Extremities of Realism | 39 |
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