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Narrative and National Allegory in Rómulo Gallegos's Venezuela

Narrative and National Allegory in Rómulo Gallegos's Venezuela

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Series: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, Book 88

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1907322795
ISBN13: 9781907322792
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Jan 14 2013
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Venezuela's preeminent educator, politician, and most important author Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) left a lasting imprint on how Venezuelans conceive of their national history and identity. Jenni Lehtinen offers the first full-length study of Gallegos's later Venezuelan novels, Canaima (1935), Pobre negro (1937), and Sobre la misma tierra (1943), which have been up to now eclipsed by the critical attention devoted to Doña Bárbara (1929). By combining close-readings organized around national allegory and narrative structure with discussions about Gallegos's socio-political essays, the study reveals previously ignored, radical developments in the Venezuelan author's ideologies. Through her bold reinterpretation of the later novels, Lehtinen reveals Gallegos as a far more innovative writer than has been traditionally appreciated.

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