Arguedas / Vargas Llosa: Dilemmas and Assemblages

by Mabel Moraïa

Overview

An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137575227
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	06/21/2016
Series:	New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is the Director of the Latin American Studies Program. She has published more than forty authored and edited books, including Bourdieu en la periferia (2014), Inscripciones críticas (2014), and Churata postcolonial (2015). In 2014, the Spanish-language edition of Arguedas/Vargas Llosa was the recipient of both the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, given by the Modern Language Associate and the Premio Iberoamericano by Latin American Studies Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1 Opening.- 2 Arguedas and Vargas Llosa, or the Dilemmas of the Model Intellectual.- 3 Archaism as Floating Signifier.- 4 Language as a Battlefield (I): The Dilemma of the Sign.- 5 Language as a Battlefield (II): The Narcissism of the Voice.- 6 Toward a Poetics of Social Change: Truth, Modernity, and the National Subject in José María Arguedas.- 7 Which Truth?: Otherness and Melodrama in Vargas Llosa.- 8 Endpoint?: Death/The Nobel Prize.