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Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?

1991; Duke University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2927280

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Josef Raab, Gustavo Pérez Firmat,

Latin American Literature Studies

Introduction: Cheek to Cheek 1 Usable Past: Idea of History in Modern U.S. And Latin American Fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora 7 Form and Function in the New World Legend / David T. Haberly 42 Dialectics of Our America / Jose David Saldivar 62 Repeating Island / Antonio Benitez-Rojo 85 Through Blues / Jose Peidra 107 Plagiarized Authenticity: Sarmiento's Cooper and Others / Doris Sommer 130 Accidental Tourist: Walt Whitman in Latin America / Enrico Mario Santi 156 American Theriomorphia: Presence of Mulatez in Cirilo Vallaverde and Beyond / Eduardo Gonzalez 177 Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Reading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story Also Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson / John T. Irwin 198 Marking Space, Charting Time: Text and Territory in Faulkner's The Bear and Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos / Wendy B. Faris 243 In-Fringe: Role of French Criticism in the Fiction of Nicole Brossard and Severo Sarduy / Rene Prieto 266 Mischling and Metis: Common and Uncommon Languages in Adrienne Rich and Aime Cesaire / Jonathan Monroe 282 Strut of the Centipede: Jose Lezama Lima and New World Exceptionalism / Gustavo Perez Firmat 316 Notes 333 Index 387 Contributors 393