Latin American Writing Research Articles

Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing:Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing.

Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing:Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing.

Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing

Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing

On Dictatorship and Rhetoric in Latin American Writing: A Counter-Proposal

Roberto González Echevarría's recent article in LARR, “The Dictatorship of Rhetoric/The Rhetoric of Dictatorship: Carpentier, García Márquez and Roa Bastos,” though elegantly written and full of ideas, seems to me to have confused almost every issue it raises and to have evaded other equally important issues rather than confront them. The persistent, largely unspoken promise of his text is that it will illuminate both history and literature by separating and contrasting them, whereas in fact it surrenders completely to the latest version of the literary critic's traditional means of escape. Where previously it used to be said that history was the realm of mundane reality and literature the realm of the imagination, critics now tell us that the twentieth century has proved that all reality is fictive and that the borders between reality and what used to be called fiction are impossible to draw, all men's actions and reactions forming and being formed from a seamless web of invisibly structured discourse. This is evidently RGE's view, and the influence of French structuralism is apparent in his text.

In Search of a Latin American Writing

In Search of a Latin American Writing

Latin American Writing Today

Latin American Writing Today

Latin American Writing Today

Latin American Writing Today