The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

Filer, Malva E.; Echevarría, Roberto González

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“…Emergence and Development of Latin American Dictator Novel Echevarrı´a (1985) traces the history of the Latin American dictator novel to the 16th Century when writers such as Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Francisco Lopez de Gomara wrote accounts of Corte's conquest of Mexico. He believes that Gomara's book was very close, in structural terms, to the contemporary Latin American dictator novel.…”

Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

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Fictionalizing the Language of Power: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Latin American Novels

Ali,

Ghani

2023

SAGE Open

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Latin American dictator fiction has a long tradition and is widely acclaimed in critical studies, while Pakistani dictator fiction began to emerge in recent years. The study is analytical and comparative research based on the contents of two culturally, historically, and geographically diverse novels—Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat and Mohammad Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes so as to locate their common and contrasting aspects. It is a qualitative study and through content analysis, it finds convergences and divergences between a Latin American and a Pakistani dictator novel. A special emphasis of the study is on power, dictator portrayal, torture, resistance, retelling/rewriting history, and representation. The study concludes that where Llosa presents the detailed description of events related to the atrocious regime of Trujillo, Hanif presents a partial and not the whole view of Zia’s dictatorship. Llosa misses no opportunity to create the sentiments of detestation and wrath against the despotic rule and his language throbs with bitterness and becomes satiric while unveiling the dark aspects of the Trujillo regime. However, Hanif, instead of giving a detailed and direct portrayal of certain dark aspects and brutalities, gives just oblique references to them and even the events which he brings to the forefront are presented in a very light and humorous vein which fail to arouse the emotions of abhorrence and denouncement against the despotic rule.

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Fictionalizing the Language of Power: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Latin American Novels

Ali,

Ghani

2023

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“…The return of late Caribbean surrealists to a time or a world before the plantation—which is, of course, includes the worlds and modes of living that came from Africa and survived through necessary alterations in the folds and amid the violence of the plantation—is a return to and perhaps a reworking of the ambivalent “birthing scene” of the Americas itself, of American disclosure and invention, if such a scene, as Roberto González Echeverría paints it, includes “a chronicler, possessed of writing, asking the native to unveil his or her secrets, and the native doing so, but only by gradually usurping the chronicler's place and turning the account of this confrontation into something quite different from what was intended” (Echeverría 1985, 123). What is important in this exchange is that power, while belonging to one side, is never fully stable or properly contained.…”

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Notes on Wifredo Lam's Heretical Surrealism

Moreno

2023

Religious Studies Review

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“…Considering the implications of these riddles, Santí focuses on Sergio's fading literary aspirations and failing literary prospects. González Echevarría (1985) reflects Santí's position: "Desnoes's protagonist remains in Cuba but does not convert to the cause of the Revolution, perhaps because of the ironic realization that the gesture will also become literary, yet another break that will be 'consolable,' that will not effectively remain a present, but will become instead one more space in that selfless text of memory and of writing" (114). These are valuable insights into the complexity of the novel and the convolutions of Sergio's mind.…”

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“…The primary cause for his inertia has been well explored (Menton 1975, Kernan 1975, Santí 1981, González Echevarría 1985: Sergio does not buy the promise of the revolution. This is the fault-line that so bedevilled film reviewers when the film was released in the US (Chanan 1990: 12).…”

Section: An Inconsolable Memorymentioning

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‘I would rather go on being underdeveloped.’ Rereading and recontextualising Edmundo Desnoes's 1965 novel Memorias del subdesarrollo

Rowlandson¹

2020

International Journal of Cuban Studies

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This article follows two lines of inquiry. First, it provides a rereading of the novel Memorias del subdesarrollo (Desnoes 1965), suggesting that the protagonist, Sergio, is affected by the threat of nuclear war throughout the novel and that this fear dominates the text from the outset, and not just the novel's ending during the Missile Crisis of October 1962. It argues that Sergio's state of anxiety and inertia derive as much from this fear as from his intellectual detachment and problematic relationship with the Cuban Revolution, where critical attention has tended to focus. This rereading gives texture to Sergio's inaction and nihilism, revealing a coherent response of an individual to the threat of catastrophe. Secondly, this article sets this rereading against a new context of catastrophe: that of climate change, ecosystem collapse and species extinction. In this context an overlooked revolutionary fervour is detected in Sergio that provides a reading of hope in the narrative that, when read analogously against the present, may reflect a sense of hope against calamity.

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The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

Cited by 4 publications

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Fictionalizing the Language of Power: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Latin American Novels

Fictionalizing the Language of Power: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Latin American Novels

Notes on Wifredo Lam's Heretical Surrealism

‘I would rather go on being underdeveloped.’ Rereading and recontextualising Edmundo Desnoes's 1965 novel Memorias del subdesarrollo

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