Lifting the obsidian mask the artistic vision of Carlos Fuentes /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Potomac, Md., U.S.A. :
Scripta Humanistica,
2007.
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| Series: | Scripta Humanistica (Series) ;
158. Digitalia eBook Collection: Scripta Humanistica. |
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| Online Access: | Digitalia Hispánica |
Table of Contents:
- Chronology
- Introduction:
- Fuentes's artistic vision-Mexico as history, myth, and Dream
- Ch. 1.
- The founding of the latin american novel of the Boom: la region mas transparente
- Ch. 2.
- A mexican bildungsroman: las buenas conciencias
- Ch. 3.
- The revolution of 1910 and its aftermath: la muerte de Artemio cruz.
- Ch. 4.
- Aura: self, double, and the supernatural
- Ch. 5.
- Morality and double standards: cantar de ciegos.
- Ch. 6.
- The quest for redemption and the equivocal Narrator: cambio de piel.
- Ch. 7.
- The cinematic novel of maria felix: zona sagrada.
- Ch. 8.
- From moctezuma II to Nonoalco in 1968: Todos los Gatos Son Pardos.
- Ch. 9.
- Cumpleaños: the myth and demythification of Jorge Luis Borges.
- Ch. 10.
- Terra nostra: the novela totalizante of three worlds.
- Ch. 11.
- The quest for an autonomous individual and national Identity: la cabeza de la hidra .
- Ch. 12.
- New world, old world, and the supernatural: una Familia lejana.
- Ch. 13.
- The death and resurrection of the cinematic Superstar: orquídeasa la luz de la luna
- Ch. 14.
- Ambrose bierce and pancho villa: gringo viejo.
- Ch. 15.
- Postmodern Fuentes: indeterminacy and the past as Future: Cristobal Nonato. -
- Ch. 16
- Latin American independence and the new historical Novel: la campaña.
- Ch. 17.
- Eros and thanatos: diana o la cazadora solitaria.
- Ch. 18.
- Crossing physical, metaphysical and linguistic Frontiers: la Frontera de Cristal.
- Ch. 19.
- The feminist response to artemio cruz: los años con Laura Diaz.
- Ch. 20.
- From the metaphysical to the barbaric: Instinto de Inez
- Conclusion:
- Beneath the obsidian mask: a vision of openness
- Selected bibliography.