Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America

Abstract

Preface Part I. History and the Literary Imagination: 1. Introduction Gari Laguardia and Bell Gale Chevigny 2. 'Insatiable Unease': Melville and Carpentier and the search for an American hermeneutic Bell Gale Chevigny 3. The fiction of national formation: The Indigenista novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Rosario Castellanos Cynthia Steele 4. Supplying demand: Walt Whitman as the liberal self Doris Sommer 5. Caliban as poet: Reversing the maps of domination Susan Willis 6. Mrs Williams's William Carlos Julio Marzan 7. Dreams of Two Americas Pablo Armando Fernandez Part II. The Lives and Fictions of American Women: 8. Introduction Bell Gale Chevigny 9. This life within me won't keep still Electa Arenal 10. Interview with Margaret Randall Bell Gale Chevigny 11. An invitation to understanding among poor women of the Americas: The Color Purple and Hasta No verte, Jesus Mio Lisa Davis 12. The other face of the phallus Luisa Valenzuela 13. Plotting women: Popular narratives for women in the United States and in Latin America Jean Franco Part III. Perspectives on Literary Criticism: 14. Introduction Gari Laguardia 15. Northrop Frye, modern fantasy, centrist liberalism, antimarxism, passing time and other limits of American academic criticism Gene Bell-Villada 16. Marvelous relaism/marvelous criticsm Gari Laguardia 17. Bridge over troubled waters Edmundo Desnoes 18. The poet as critics: Wallace Stevens and Octavio Paz Michael Wood Index.

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