The Black Image in Latin American Literature. By Richard L. Jackson. (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1976. Pp. xvii, 174. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $10.00.)

1977 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-299
Author(s):  
Gerald Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
The University

Reminiscences of Mexico: A Conversation with Richard Greenleaf

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
John F. Schwaller
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Colonial Latin America ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
The University

Dr. Richard Greenleaf has been one of the most influential historians of colonial Latin America in general, and of the Inquisition in particular. He received his university and graduate education in his home state at the University of New Mexico. His professional career took him to Mexico City during the exciting period of the 1950s and 1960s. From there he went on to be one of the guiding forces in the consolidation of the Latin American Studies program at Tulane University. This interview was conducted in the summer of 2007 at Dr. Greenleaf's residence in Albuquerque.

scholarly journals Poems from El Salvador

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-17
Author(s):  
Roque Dalton ◽  
Roberto Armijo
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The University

Ro'que Dalton (1933-75) is a well-known poet who was forced to live in exile for many years; he was murdered on his return to El Salvador in 1975. Roberto Armijo (b. 1937) has published essays, plays and poems. In 1965 he won the Republica de El Salvador Prize with his book: Francisco de Gavidia, la odisea de su genio. Since 1970 he has been living in exile in Paris. He is Associate Professor at the University of Nanterre and Professor of Latin American Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Uncommon Grounds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Song Of Solomon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us

This chapter turns from a historical account of the development of the US literature of experience and the Latin American literature of reading to a textual analysis of the US and Latin American historical novel. Hemispheric/inter-American scholars often cite William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977) as exemplifying instances of literary borrowing across the North–South divide. As I demonstrate, however, each of the later texts also realigns its predecessor’s historical imaginary according to the dominant logics of the US and Latin American literary fields. Whereas the American works foreground experiential models of reconstructing the past and conveying knowledge across generations, García Márquez’s Latin American novel presents reading as the fundamental mode of comprehending and transmitting history.

Anxieties of Experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Leaves Of Grass ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Interpretation

Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of authority for New World literature derives from an author’s first-hand contact with American places and peoples or from a creative (mis)reading of existing traditions, the book charts a widening gap in how modern US and Latin American writers defined their literary authority. In the process, it traces the development of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the “US literature of experience” and the “Latin American literature of the reader.” Reinterpreting a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, Anxieties of Experience shows how this hemispheric literary divide fueled a series of anxieties, misunderstandings, and “misencounters” between US and Latin American authors. In the wake of recent calls to rethink the “common grounds” approach to literature across the Americas, the book advocates a comparative approach that highlights the distinct logics of production and legitimation in the US and Latin American literary fields. Anxieties of Experience closes by exploring the convergence of the literature of experience and the literature of the reader in the first decades of the twenty-first century, arguing that the post-Bolaño moment has produced the strongest signs of a truly reciprocal literature of the Americas in more than a hundred years.

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