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Autobiographical Writing in Latin America: Folds of the Self

Autobiographical Writing in Latin America: Folds of the Self

Franco, Sergio R.
Ascherl, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1604979798
ISBN13: 9781604979794
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Mar 30 2017
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Autobiography has never been foreign to Latin American literature. However, during the twentieth century, the production of autobiographical writing has only intensified. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Latin American writings of the self (autobiographies, journals, memoirs) have emerged as a rich and varied corpus of Latin American literature, both for the quantity of texts and for reasons of aesthetic relevance.
How can this development be explained? What change, if any, has taken place that can explain this narrative inflection? To what drives or cultural logics does it respond? Responding to these questions can be difficult since the relations between society and artistic production are far from mechanical; there are diverse cultural mediations at stake. Even so, in what follows I will attempt to set forth some considerations that might help to clarify the situation.

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