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The Monstered Self
Viewing stories and novels from an ethnographic perspective, Eduardo González here explores the relationship between myth, ritual, and death in writings by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, and Roa Bastos. He then weaves this analysis into a larger cultural fabric composed of the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Benjamin, H. G. Wells, Kafka, Poe, and others. What interests González is the signature of authorial selfhood in narrative and performance, which he finds willfully and temptingly disfigured in the works he examines: horrific and erotic, subservient and tyrannical, charismatic and repellent. Searching out the personal image and plot, González uncovers two fundamental types of ...
Appropriating Theory
Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, José Eduardo González focuses on Rama’s response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukács. González argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus reworked them to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization.
Make God Your Business Partner
"When you make God your business partner and you open yourself to accept their help, You realize that nothing is impossible and that your dreams come true." CP. José Eduardo González Ll.
Dante's Ballad
ñRemember that weÍre in the U.S.,î Dante Celestino is told when his daughter Emmita runs away. Friends and neighbors warn him that in the United States itÍs not considered so unusual for a fifteen-year-old girl to run away. But Dante had counseled Emmita to date only Spanish-speaking Hispanic boys, and never anyone who joins gangs or deals drugs. Yet she ignores her fatherÍs advice andright in the middle of her quinceaÐeraruns away with a tattooed Latino who doesnÍt speak Spanish and rides a lowrider motorcycle. And to complicate matters, Dante is in the U.S. illegally, making it difficult to report the girlÍs disappearance to the police. So begins DanteÍs odyssey. Accompanied b...
Cuba and the Tempest
In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba. Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonzalez calls "Romantic authorship," a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity crafte...
Eduardo Gonzalez: Esta es su historia
Con Eduardo y otros tres hermanos, nos toco nacer en un rinconcito pobre de Montevideo: fuimos "los hijos del Peluquero", y nos criamos en ese barrio carenciado pero de gente trabajadora. Nuestros amigos del barrio eran hijos de padres de diferentes nacionalidades, que, como nosotros, sus ancestros habian emigrado mayormente desde Europa. Sobre la avenida principal y subiendo desde nuestras casas, estaba la iglesia evangelica que era bien activa en el barrio. Alli conocimos del amor y el poder de Dios, y de forma individual, fuimos experimentando el que "para Dios no hay nada imposible". Jesus fue nuestro mejor Amigo... El estaba siempre cerca y en toda ocasion estaba con nosotros. Eduardo f...
Cuba and the Fall
The literature of Cuba, argues Eduardo González in this new book, takes on quite different features depending on whether one is looking at it from "the inside" or from "the outside," a view that in turn is shaped by official political culture and the authors it sanctions or by those authors and artists who exist outside state policies and cultural politics. González approaches this issue by way of two twentieth-century writers who are central to the canon of gay homoerotic expression and sensibility in Cuban culture: José Lezama Lima (1910–1976) and Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990). Drawing on the plots and characters in their works, González develops both a story line and a moral tale, r...
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
Cesar Vallejo's Season in Hell
A paid assassin was waiting for Cesar Vallejo in the prison of Trujillo, Peru. The poet was incarcerated from November, 1920 to March 1921. He had been falsely accused of a terrorist attack. The judge extracted false confessions under torture. With all those elements against him, Vallejo faced a long-term sentence in a prison where the inmates were driven insane or were killed under suspicious circumstances His imprisonment was an attempt of intimidation and punishment against a generation who saw in socialism the only solution against the perversity of power in their country. Cesar Vallejo's Season in Hell narrates the youth of Cesar Vallejo, one of the most important authors of poetry in t...
Dimas
El buen ladrón, llamado Dimas, se encuentra en sus últimos momentos de existencia. Encerrado en su celda a lado de Gestas, su cómplice, y en el camino al Calvario a lado del Cristo; va recorriendo su vida en recuerdos, mientras con su mirada no deja de observar las injusticias que se hacen al joven Rabí, al que apenas y conoció; y en un momento de profundo arrepentimiento le pide que se acuerde de él cuando esté en su reino.
