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Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction

Creating Questions

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Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction

Creating Questions

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Characters are made, scripted, and invented, but Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction explores what occurs when literary creations become creators themselves. Representing Latin American fiction’s increasingly skeptical gaze in the early- to mid- twentieth century, these literary creators breach the metafictional frame in order to problematize themes including life and death, gender and sexuality, and technology. Drawing upon a diverse range of literary works by canonical and non-canonical authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Horacio Quiroga, Carlos Onetti, Julio Cortázar, María Luisa Bombal, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Arlt, Juan José Arreola, Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, Clemente Palma, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Pedro Angelici, this study excavates critical ontological and epistemological inquiries and delves into questions of identity, power, scientific knowledge, and the transformative nature of fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Creating Questions
Chapter 1: Creating a Worried Embrace: The Shared Anxieties and Exuberance of Early-Century Science Fiction
Chapter 2: Frame Crossings, Author Spotting, and Power Struggles: Metafictional Readings of Character Creation by Arlt, Onetti, and Cortázar
Chapter 3: The Word Made Flesh: Ontological Disruption in Character Creation in Works by Borges
Chapter 4: Making Lovers: Power, Desire, Gender, and Identity Construction in Works by Bombal, Arreola, and Fuentes
Conclusion: Questioning Creations, Creators, and Created Beings

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Published Oct 30 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 230
ISBN 9781666925524
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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