Castro-Klarén - A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

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A companion to Latin American literature and culture / edited by Sara Castro-Klaren.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-2806-3 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-118-49214-7(pbk.) 1. Latin American literatureHistory and criticism. 2. Latin AmericaIntellectual life. 3. Latin AmericaSocial life and customs. I. Castro-Klaren, Sara.

PQ7081.A1C555 2007

860.998dc22

2007043481

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Cover image: David Alfaro Siquieros, Geographic Architecture, 1959. Private Collection/Photo Christies Images/The Bridgeman Art Library DACS 2007.

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To the delightful company of Peter, Ali, and David

Notes on Contributors

Adriana J. Bergero (University of California at Los Angeles) has published El Debate poltico: Modernidad, poder y disidencia en Yo el Supremo de Augusto Roa Bastos (1994); Haciendo camino: Pactos de la escritura en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges (1999); Memoria colectiva y polticas de olvido: Argentina y Uruguay (1997, with Fernando Reati); (19701990) Estudios literarios/Estudios culturales (2005, with Jorge Ruffinelli). She has published on cultural studies with a focus on the Southern Cone, urban and sensuous geography, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. Her Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 19001930 is forthcoming.

John Beverley is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Pittsburgh and an advisory editor of boundary 2 . His publications include Del Lazarillo al Sandinismo (1987); Literature and Politics in Central American Revolutions (1990, with Marc Zimmerman); The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America (1995, coedited with Michael Aronna and Jos Oviedo); and Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory (1999).

The late lvaro Flix Bolaos was Professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Florida. His publications include Barbarie y canibalismo en la retrica colonial: Los indios Pijaos de Fray Pedro Simn (1994) and Colonialism Past and Present: Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today (2002, with Gustavo Verdesio).

Adriana Michle Campos Johnson is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at UC-Irvine. She is currently finishing a manuscript on the subalternization of Canudos. Her recent publications include Everydayness and Subalternity, South Atlantic Quarterly , 106:1 (2006); Two Proposals for an Aesthetic Intervention in Politics: A Review of Nelly Richard, Masculine/Feminine and The Insubordination of Signs and Doris Sommer, Bilingual Aesthetics , New Centennial Review , 5:3 (2005); and a translation of Ticio Escobar, The Curse of Nemur: On the Art, Myth and Rituals of the Ishir Peoples of the Paraguayan Great Chaco (2007).