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Taking their word : literature and the signs of Central America / Arturo Arias.

Author/creator Arias, Arturo
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxxiii, 299 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
Contents Revolutionary endgame : globalization and the trajectory of narrative -- Erotic transgression and recodification of values in Asturias's Mulata -- Identity or literariness : the emergence of a New Maya literature -- Authoring ethnicized subjects : the performative production of the subaltern self -- After the controversy : lessons learned about subalternity and the indigenous subject -- Reading truthfully : an American reading of a subaltern text -- The burning of the Spanish embassy : Máximo Cajal versus David Stoll -- The Maya movement -- Central American-Americans? : Latino and Latin American subjectivities -- American Central Americans : invisibility and representation in the Latino United States -- Conclusion: Forever modern, forever marginal.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
LCCN 2007004495
ISBN9780816648481 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648484 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816648498 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648492 (pb : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ7471 .A75 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold