Textual exposures : photography in twentieth-century Spanish American narrative fiction
Title:
Textual exposures : photography in twentieth-century Spanish American narrative fiction
Author:
Russek, Dan, 1963- author.
ISBN:
9781552387856
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations
Series:
Latin American and Caribbean series, 11
Latin American and Caribbean series, 11.
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
General Note:
Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Contents:
INTRODUCTION -- 1: UNCANNY VISIONS: RUBÉN DARÍO, JULIO CORTÁZAR, AND SALVADOR ELIZONDO -- 2: FAMILY PORTRAITS: HORACIO QUIROGA, JUAN RULFO, SILVINA OCAMPO, AND VIRGILIO PINERA -- 3: POLITICS OF THE IMAGE: JULIO CORTÁZAR AND TOMÁSELOY MARTÍNEZ -- CONCLUSION.
Abstract:
This book examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography s powers and limitations and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated the conventions and assumptions of this medium in fictional form.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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