Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

This study of the work of the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes's vision of Mexico and in his role as novelist and critic in putting forth that vision. This paradox hinges on the tension between national identity and modernity. A significant internal conflict, van Delden contends, emerges in Fuentes's work from his attempt to stake out two different positions for himself, as experimental novelist and as politicallly engaged and responsible intellectual. Drawing on his fiction, literary essays and political journalism, the book places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America. It concludes that Fuentes is fundamentally a modernist writer, in spite of the fact that he occasionally gravitates toward the postmodernist position in literature and politics

Art · Art history · Epistemology · Modernity · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Philosophy

• Revisiting Foundational Fictions in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Carlos Fuentes’s “Sons of the Conquistador”

  Astrid Maes•Polysèmes•2021

  Añadir item

• Terra Nostra and the Rewriting of the Modern Subject

  Open Access•Kerstin Oloff•Latin American Research Review•2011

  Añadir item

• Retracing The Lost Steps

  Deborah N Cohn, Deborah Cohn•CR The New Centennial Review•2003

  Añadir item

• La discordia de Ilíada en la novela Aquiles o el guerrillero y el asesino de Carlos Fuentes

  Open Access•Graciela C Zecchin de Fasano•Classica - Revista Brasileira de…•2019

  Añadir item

• The Social Function of Carlos Fuentes

  Open Access•Adam David Morton•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2003

  Añadir item