Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature: The Paradox of Ideological Construction and Deconstruction

Author:   Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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Pages:   262
Publication Date:   14 December 2018
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Author:   Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030080129


ISBN 10:   3030080129
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   14 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Ideology and Parody; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson.- 2. Parody and Intertextuality in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Spanish American Women Writers; Patricia Montilla.- 3. Postmodern Parody of The Enchanted Cottage in El beso de la mujer araña: Molina Leaves the Woods; Diane Marting.- 4. The Re (Naissance) of Texts: Parody and Rewriting in the Work of Luisa Valenzuela; Fernando Burgos Pérez.- 5. Of Ideological Continuums and Sentimental Memories: Enriquillo Sánchez’s Musiquito: Anales de un déspota y de un bolerista; Danny Méndez.- 6. Parody as Genealogy and Tradition in Nazi Literature in the Americas; Fátima R. Nogueira.- 7. Claudia Piñeiro’s Elena Knows: How Parody in the Crime Novel Explores Disability and Feminism; Patricia Varas.- 8. No Laughing Matter: Post-Soviet Cuba in the Orbit of Postmodern Parody; Elzbieta Sklodowska.- 9. Elective Affinities: The Spectacle of Melodrama and Sensationalism in Cinco esquinas; Jorge Carlos Guerrero.- 10. Postmodern Transpositions of the Latin American novela de la tierra: Maldito amor by Rosario Ferré and La otra selva by Boris Salazar; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson.

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Helene Carol Weldt-Basson is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Dakota, USA. She has previously held appointments at Michigan State, Wayne State, Fordham and Columbia Universities. She is the author of three books: Augusto Roa Bastos’s I The Supreme: A Dialogic Perspective (1993), Subversive Silences: Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers (2009), and Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (2017). She is also the editor of two previous essay collections with Palgrave Macmillan: Postmodernism’s Role in Latin American Literature: The Life and Work of Augusto Roa Bastos (2010) and Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction: The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism (2013).

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