Skip to main content

Tamesis Books

Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s

No reviews yet
Product Code: 9781855662711
ISBN13: 9781855662711
Condition: New
$146.54

Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s

$146.54
 
The author analyses six novels of the "boom" in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity.

This book examines six Cuban novels published between 1991 and 1999, all part of the new "boom" of the Cuban novel in the 1990s. It analyses how in undermining monolithic representations of reality these texts employ discursive techniques that question absolute truths, defy established boundaries of literary genres and challenge concepts of national, gender and individual identity. The authors studied in this book---Reinaldo Arenas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Abilio Est?vez, Da?na Chaviano, Yanitzia Canetti, and Zo? Vald?s---are placed beyond the dichotomy of outside and inside Cuba in order to focus on the fluidity and heterogeneity of Cuban culture displayed in its literature. This study establishes similarities and differences in the way these authors create polyphonic texts that question whether notions of country and nation coincide in novels that respond to economic hardship, political and social changes, issues of cuban?a, and exile.

?ngela Dorado-Otero is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Iberian and Latin American Studies at Queen Mary University of London.


Author: ??gela Dorado-Otero
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Publication Date: Mar 20, 2014
Number of Pages: 299 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 185566271X
ISBN-13: 9781855662711
 

Customer Reviews

This product hasn't received any reviews yet. Be the first to review this product!

Faster Shipping

Delivery in 3-8 days

Easy Returns

14 days returns

Discount upto 30%

Monthly discount on books

Outstanding Customer Service

Support 24 hours a day