scholarly journals The Spanish flu and the fiction literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 296-312
Author(s):  
Emma Vázquez- Espinosa ◽  
Claudio Laganà ◽  
Fernando Vazquez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Historical Aspect ◽  
Influenza Pandemics ◽  
The Press ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
The Subject

This review focuses on the fictional literature in which the Spanish flu is represented either as an anecdotal or as a historical aspect and the effect on the author or fictional character. We examine this sociocultural period in the press and mainly in Anglo-Saxon literary works and from other countries, including Spanish and Latin American literature that is not very represented in some international reviews on the subject. Also, we include books about the previous and subsequent influenza pandemics to the Spanish flu.

scholarly journals América Latina, crítica literaria e identidad

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
María Elia Rodríguez Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Literatura Latinoamericana ◽  
The Subject ◽  
America Latina

El artículo aborda el problema enfrentado por la crítica literaria en la búsqueda de una identidad latinoamericana, ya que al tratar de reflexionar sobre el tema, surgen varias inquietudes con respecto a los propios términos.En este estudio intentamos definir términos tales como crítica, literatura latinoamericana, y la identidad. La contribución es, por lo tanto, de aclaración.Por último, se sugiere lo que debería ser la tarea de la crítica y el papel de la crítica en el contexto de América Latina, con el sincretismo cultural y la unidad de los temas que le dan una identidad. Tiene que ser una tarea creativa, una que da a luz la ideología y el conocimiento, que se manifiesta dialécticamente la relación producción-significante, la sociedad y la historia, y que hace evidente la la síntesis cultural que América Latina proyecta como su imagen. The articIe discusses the problem confronted by literary criticism in the search for a Latin American identity, inasmuch as while attempting to reflect on the subject, there arise several concems regarding the terms themselves.In this study we attempt to define such terms as criticism, critic, Latin American literature, and identity. The contribution is, therefore, one of cIarification.Finally, we suggest what should be the task of criticism and the role of the critic in the Latin American context, with the cultural sincretism and unity of issues that give it an identity. It must be a creative task, one that brings forth ideology and knowledge, that manifests dialectically the production-signifier relationship, society and history, and that evinces the cultural synthesis that Latin America projects as its image. 

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.

Introduction to Latin American Literature: A Bilingual Anthology

Chasqui ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Evelio Echevarría ◽  
Jack Child
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature

The Black Image in Latin American Literature

1977 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 598
Author(s):  
Charles M. Tatum ◽  
Richard L. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature

The Black Image in Latin American Literature

Hispania ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 1026
Author(s):  
Gaston P. Fernandez ◽  
Richard L. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature

The Teaching of Latin-American Literature

Hispania ◽  
1939 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 263 ◽  
Author(s):  
James O. Swain
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature
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