Miguel Angel Asturias's Archeology of Return
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
- Author: Reni Prieto
- Date Published: October 1993
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521434126
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Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) is one of the notable literary figures in Latin America who in the 1920s contrived both to explore and to define Latin literature within the mainstream of Western history. He managed to be poetic, political and mythological at the same time, and with a degree of synthesis rarely achieved then or since. As is the case with many Latin American writers, his work is inextricably linked with politics, and he lived in exile for many years. He was influenced by Indian mythology, fantasy and Surrealism and was the first Latin American novelist to understand the implications of anthropology and structural linguistics for culture and for fiction. René Prieto examines how Miguel Angel Asturias turns to the cultural traditions of the ancient Maya and combines them with the rhetoric of surrealism in order to produce three highly complex and widely misunderstood masterpieces; the Leyendas de Guatemala (1930), Hombres de maiz (1949) and Mulata de tal (1963). Asturias is the first American author to succeed in portraying an indigenous world vision that is blatantly non-Western.
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- Date Published: October 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521434126
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword and acknowledgements
Table of contents
Introduction
1. The tales that no one believes: Layendas de Guatemala
2. Becoming ants after the harvest: Hombres de maiz
3. If all the dead began to walk the Earth would be full of steps: Mulata de tal
4. Conclusion: from death unto life
Bibliography
Index.
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