Theoretical Fables: The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Literature

by Alicia Borinsky

Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.

Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent decades, seems marked by its self-reflexivity, by its playful relationship to history and the everyday, and by its concerns with the ways in which language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812232348
• ISBN13: 9780812232349
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"