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The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

González Echevarría, Roberto

Paperback

Series: Llilas Latin American Monograph, Book 64

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 029278709X
ISBN13: 9780292787094
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Sep 1 1985
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies-- a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.

An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read. In the works themselves this ideology is constantly subjected to a radical critique, and that critique renders the ideology productive and in a sense is what constitutes the work. In literary criticism, however, too frequently the ideology merely serves as support for an authoritative discourse that seriously misrepresents Latin American literature.

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