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Textual Confrontations
Alfred J. Mac Adam
其他書名
Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature
出版University of Chicago Press, 1987-03
主題Education / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN02264999019780226499901
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=08wGHT9iug8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature has gone beyond the context of Hispanic letters to borrow from, exploit, and finally extend the Western tradition.

Mac Adam describes the changes that have taken place in Latin American literature since the time of Modernismo (roughly 1880-1920), when Spanish American writers tried to update their literary language by imitating foreign, mostly French, literature. Since then, as he demonstrates, Latin American writing has achieved a pioneering status by means of a different kind of imitation—parody—whereby it gives back to the former centers of Western culture their own writing, now distorted and reshaped into something new.