Latin American and Caribbean series, ISSN 1498-2366 ; 11
Print version: ISBN 9781552387832
Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection
Includes bibliographical references and index
INTRODUCTION -- 1: UNCANNY VISIONS: RUBEN DARIO, JULIO CORTAZAR, AND SALVADOR ELIZONDO -- 2: FAMILY PORTRAITS: HORACIO QUIROGA, JUAN RULFO, SILVINA OCAMPO, AND VIRGILIO PINERA -- 3: POLITICS OF THE IMAGE: JULIO CORTAZAR AND TOMASELOY MARTINEZ -- CONCLUSION.
This book examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography s powers and limitations and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated the conventions and assumptions of this medium in fictional form..