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Additional authors

1. Camayd-Freixas, Erik.
2. González, José Eduardo.

Description

1. xix, 285 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Alternative title

1. Primitivism & identity in Latin America

Subject

1. Primitivism in literature
2. Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
3. Latin America > Civilization
4. Primitivism > Latin America

Contents

1. Paradise subverted: the invention of the Mexican character / Roger Bartra -- Between Sade and the savage: Octavio Paz's Aztecs / Amaryll Chanady -- Under the shadow of God: roots of primitivism in early colonial Mexico / Delia Annunziata Cosentino -- Of Alebrijes and Ocumichos: some myths about folk art and Mexican identity / Eli Bartra -- Primitive borders: cultural identity and ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic / Fernando Valerio-Holguín -- Dialectics of archaism and modernity: technique and primitivism in Angel Rama's Transculturación narrativa en América Latina / José Eduardo González -- Narrative primitivism: theory and practice in Latin America / Erik Camayd-Freixas -- Narrating the other: Julio Cortázar's "Axolotl" as ethnographic allegory / R. Lane Kauffmann -- Jungle fever: primitivism in environmentalism; Rómulo Gallegos's Canaima and the romance of the jungle / Jorge Marcone -- Primitivism and cultural production: future's memory; native people's voices in Latin American society / Ivete Lara Camargos Walty -- Primitive bodies in Latin American cinema: Nicolás Echevarría's Cabeza de Vaca / Luis Fernando Restrepo -- Subliminal body: shamanism, ancient theater, and ethnodrama / Gabriel Weisz -- Primitivist construction of identity in the work of Frida Kahlo / Wendy B. Faris -- Mi andina y dulce Rita: women, indigenism, and the avant-garde in César Vallejo / Tace Megan Hedrick.

Call number

1. JFE 00-15877

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index.

Title

1. Primitivism and identity in Latin America : essays on art, literature, and culture / edited by Erik Camayd-Freixas and José Eduardo González.

Imprint

1. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2000.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index.

Added author

1. Camayd-Freixas, Erik.
2. González, José Eduardo.

Spine title

1. Primitivism & identity in Latin America

LCCN

1. 00008340

ISBN

1. 0816520453 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 00-15877