The Noé Jitrik Reader: Selected Essays on Latin American Literature

Noe Jitrik

Published by Duke University Press 2005

The Noé Jitrik Reader

Selected Essays on Latin American Literature

Noe Jitrik
Edited by: Daniel Balderston
Translated by: Susan E. Benner

In the series Latin America in Translation

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386636

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About this book

Collection of groundbreaking essays by Noe Jitrik, an important critic of Latin American literature.

Author / Editor information

Noé Jitrik was born in 1928 in Rivera, Argentina. He is the Director of the Instituto de Literatura Latinoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires. He has taught at universities in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, and Venezuela. Jitrik is the author of many works of literary criticism and more than a dozen books of fiction and poetry. He is currently editing a twelve-volume history of Argentine literature.

Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa. He is the author of books including El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas; Borges, realidades y simulacros; and Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (also published by Duke University Press).

Susan Benner is a lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University.

Reviews

“Reading these essays, I was struck by how much all of us owe to Noé Jitrik and by his role in the formation of a Latin American intelligentsia. Jitrik’s is a voice of wisdom and passion, and this volume reveals the extraordinary scope and weight of his intellectual presence.”—Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Complex Feelings about Borges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverría’s ‘‘The Slaughter House’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the Latin American Historical Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Beneath the Sign of the Baroque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Autobiography, Memoir, Diary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Martí in the Latin American Library Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
The Riches of Poverty Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Lack and Excess in José Bianco’s Shadow Play Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Suffering Narrator Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Notes on the ‘‘Holy Place’’ and ‘‘Otherness’’ in Cortázar’s Bestiary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
I, the Supreme as Historical Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Thirty Years Later Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 328

eBook

Published: May 4, 2005
ISBN: 9780822386636