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Latin American Literary Criticism: Myth, History, Ideology

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DEMETRIO AGUILERA-MALTA AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: THE TERTIARY PHASE OF EPIC TRADITION IN LATIN AMERICA. By RABASSACLEMENTINE CHRISTOS. (New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1980. Pp. 301. $27.50.)
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HERMENEUTICA Y PRAXIS DEL INDIGENISMO: LA NOVELA INDIGENISTA DE CLORINDA MATTO A JOSE MARIA ARGUEDAS. By RODRÍGUEZ-LUISJULIO. (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1980. Pp. 277.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Kemy Oyarzún
Kemy Oyarzún*
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University of California, Riverside
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 258 - 270
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Copyright © 1988 by Latin American Research Review

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Notes

1. See Angel Rama, “Rodolfo Walsh: la narrativa en el conflicto de las culturas,” Literatura y clase social (Mexico City: Folios Ediciones, 1983), 195–220.

2. See Angel Rama's Transculturación narrativa en América Latina (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1982).

3. Hernán Vidal analyzes the network of ideological and market determinations in the construction of the so-called literary boom during the 1960s. See his Literatura hispanoamericana e ideología liberal (Buenos Aires: Hispamérica, 1976).

4. Several readers have pointed out this critical function of mythology in literature. See Georg Lukács, “El ideal del hombre armonioso en el capitalismo,” in Problemas del realismo (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1967); Héctor Mario Cavallari, Leopoldo Marechal: el espacio de los signos (Xalapa, Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana, 1982); and Herbert Marcuse, Eros y civilización (Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 1976).

5. See, among others, Fernando Alegría, Nueva historia de la novela hispanoamericana (New Hampshire: Ediciones del Norte, 1986); Enrique Anderson Imbert, Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1957); América Latina en su literatura, edited by César Fernández Moreno (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 1969); and Jean Franco, La cultura moderna en América Latina (Mexico City: Joaquín Mortiz, 1971).

6. Rama says in this respect, “From that choice we observe an internal treatment of those forms, introducing notorious modifications [of the genre] and at the same time fortifying that operation with the support of elements from the native culture” (quoted by Cornejo Polar, 62; my translation).

7. See Gerardo Luzuriaga, Del realismo al expresionismo: el teatro de Demetrio Aguilera Malta (Madrid: Plaza Mayor, 1971), 141, quoted by Rabassa in En torno a Aguilera Malta, p. 185, n. 27.