Literature and Subjection

Download or read book Literature and Subjection written by Horacio Legras and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legras views the factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature. He analyzes key works by novelists Juan Jos Saer (The Witness), Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Roa Bastos (Son of Man), and Jose Mara Arguedas (The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below), among others, to provide a theoretical basis for understanding the plight of the author, the peripheral voice, and the confines of the literary medium.