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Copyright 1992 by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
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The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Novel in the Americas / Raymond Leslie Williams, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87081-271-8
1. Fiction History and criticism. 2. American fiction History and criticism. 3. Spanish-American fiction History and criticism. I. Williams, Raymond L.
PN3321.N59 1992
809.3 dc20
92-26248
CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984
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The Critical Studies of the Americas Committee is privileged to inaugurate its new interdisciplinary book series with this collection of essays by and about eminent writers and scholars of the Americas. It is the first of what we hope will be a set of studies that will provide an intellectual framework for critical inquiry into and initiate a hemisphericwide dialog on the interrelated societies, histories, and cultures of the Americas, North and South.
WILLIAM WEI Managing Editor Boulder, Colorado
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Page vii
In memory of Manuel Puig
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Contents
Contributors
xi
Preface
xv
CARLOS FUENTES
Latin America and the Universality of the Novel
1
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
The Novel's Next Step: From the Novel of the Americas to the Global Novel
13
WILLIAM H. GASS
The Last of the Avant-Garde
19
RAYMOND D. SOUZA
Columbus in the Novel of the Americas: Alejo Carpentier, Abel Posse, and Stephen Marlowe
40
LARRY McCAFFERY
The North American Novel at the Quincentennial Moment: Everything Is Permitted
56
JOHN S. BRUSHWOOD
A Comparative View of Mexican Fiction in the Seventies
77
FEDERICO PATN
Recent Mexican Fiction
91
DAVD CARRASCO
Desire and the Frontier: Apparitions from the Unconscious in The Old Gringo
101
RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS
Women Writing in the Americas: New Projects of the 1980s
119
RONALD SUKENICK
Unwriting
132
RIKKI DUCORNET
Manifesto in Voices
139
DIAMELA ELTIT
On Literary Creation
143
FLETCHER FAIREY
Mario Vargas Llosa on D. H. Lawrence: An Interview
151
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Contributors
Carlos Fuentes has been a leading Mexican novelist, playwright, and essayist prominent in Latin America since the "boom" of the Latin American novel in the 1960s. Among the twenty-one books he has published, which have been translated into numerous languages, his major novels include Where the Air Is Clear, The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, Change of Skin, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo, Distant Relations, and The Campaign. Fuentes has served as ambassador to France and is the recipient of both the Rmulo Gallegos Prize and the Cervantes Prize. He participated in the first and fourth Novel of the Americas symposia in 1989 and 1992.
Maxine Hong Kingston is one of the most prominent Asian-American writers today. She has published essays, reviews, and novels, including The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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