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Postmodernism's Role in Latin American Literature: The Life and Work of Augusto Roa Bastos. Helene C. Weldt-Basson

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Page: 244
ISBN: 0230617662, 9780230617667

Review

“The essays that follow Weldt-Basson’s excellent analytical presentation address the postmodern project that emerges out of Roa Bastos’ novels, short stories, and film scripts.  As we move from one analysis to the other, we’ll find, as we do when we enter Roa Bastos’ monumental novel Yo el Supremo (I, the Supreme), an exploration of the recesses of orality and writing, of literary devices and the complex and intricate relations between history and fiction as we are granted access to the meandering of absolute power.”—Saúl Sosnowski, University of Maryland, College Park

“Weldt-Basson's Postmodernism's Role in Latin American Literature consists of essays that engage, from various critical perspectives, not only Roa Bastos’ most famous novels and stories, but also much of the Paraguayan author's work that has received less critical attention.  Its contributions are intelligent, well written, and thoroughly documented—theoretically sophisticated enough to be of interest and use to Roa Bastos scholars while contextualized and presented in such a manner as to be accessible to advanced students.”— Brent Carbajal, Western Washington University

From the Back Cover

This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to Augusto Roa Bastos's work and contextualizes themes of nationhood, identity, and history.