Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s

by Ángela Dorado-Otero

This book examines six Cuban novels published between 1991 and 1999, alll part of the new 'boom' of the Cuban novel in the 1990s. It analyses how in undermining monolithic representations of reality these texts employ discursive techniques that question absolute truths, defy established boundaries of literary genres and challenge concepts of national, gender and individual identity. The authors studied in this book---Reinaldo Arenas, Leonardo Padura...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185566271X
• ISBN13: 9781855662711
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"