Research Catalog

Title

Imagination, emblems, and expressions : essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and continental culture and identity / edited by Helen Ryan-Ranson.

Publication

Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ryan-Ranson, Helen.

Description

xvii, 365 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Latin American literature > History and criticism
• Caribbean literature > History and criticism
• European literature > History and criticism
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Group identity in literature
• Latin America > Civilization
• Europe > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Popular culture : the roots of literary tradition / David William Foster -- The image of utopia as a conceptual determinant in the structural development of Spanish American culture / Frederic W. Murray -- Changing perceptions of nineteenth-century Mexican and Argentinian identity / Raymond J. Lewis -- The corrido as a medium for cultural identification / Reynaldo Ruiz -- Regionalism, nationalism, and modernism : José Lins do Rêgo's Fogo Morto / David M. Jordan -- Identity and authenticity in Alejo Carpentier's Reasons of state / Matthew C. Stewart -- In search of a socialist identity in revolutionary Cuban children's literature / Rafael Ocasio -- English and Spanish pop songs as part of character speech : cultural hybridity in Roberto G. Fernández's Raining backwards / Jorge Febles -- Developing identity in the Caribbean : writing about history in the novels of Daniel Maximin / Lauren Yoder.
• Race, class, and gender in four West Indian novels : Pitch Lake, Corentyne thunder, The hills were joyful together, Wide Sargasso Sea / Margaret K. Bass -- Riddym ravings : female and national identity in Jamaican Creole poetry / Elizabeth A. Wheeler -- Corporeal/discursive bodies and the subject : Dream on Monkey Mountain and the poetics of identity / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Colonizing consciousness : culture and identity in Walcott's Another life and Wordsworth's Prelude / Ashton Nichols -- Culture and identity in Lovelace's The wine of astonishment / Renu Juneja -- Earl Lovelace's Bad John's, Street princes and the masters of schools / Chezia Thompson-Cager -- Milan Kundera : the search for self in a post-modern world / Vicki Adams -- Anatomy of a bestseller : the making of an identity / Renate Gerulaitis.
• Wilheim Busch's Max und Moritz : a German tale of innocence and experience / Max E. Noordhoorn -- Identity crisis in fairy-tale land : the Grimm fairy tales and their uses by modern-day imitators / Ursula E. Beitter -- Afro Iberian identity in the early literature of Spain : precursor to the Afro Hispanic identity / Antonio Olliz-Boyd and Gabriel Asoanab Abudu -- Catalan culture and identity through popular forms : the collaborative efforts of the Ofèlia Dracs Group in Negra i consentida (hardboiled and spoiled) / Patricia Hart -- Bachelardian myth in Rodoreda's construction of identity / Jaume Marti-Olivella -- "El vago" and "el golfo" and the ideal society in Vidas sombrías by Pio Baroja / Nancy Lopez-Aranguren -- The image of the Basque country and Basque culture in the American press / Eduardo Lopez-Aranguren.

Call Number

JFE 95-7325

ISBN

• 087972580X
• 0879725818 (pbk.)

LCCN

93070305

OCLC

28272903

Title

Imagination, emblems, and expressions : essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and continental culture and identity / edited by Helen Ryan-Ranson.

Imprint

Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1993.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Ryan-Ranson, Helen.

Research Call Number

JFE 95-7325

Sc E 96-777