Maarten Van Delden

Biographic Data

ID1156448
NAMEMaarten Van Delden
GIVEN NAMESMaarten
FAMILY NAMEVan Delden
SIGNATUREVAN DELDEN M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX0

  • The Holocaust in Mexican Literature

    Open AccessMaarten Van DeldenARTICLEEuropean Review2014References: 1

    Even though none of the recent reference works on Holocaust literature mentions the Mexican output on this topic, there exists a substantial tradition of literary works in Mexico that address the Holocaust. This essay offers a survey of this tradition, with a focus on how the authors of these works relate the Holocaust to the Mexican context from which they are writing. I argue that most of the Mexican authors I study treat the Holocaust as part …

  • Political Leadership in Zapatista Mexico

    Open AccessMaarten Van DeldenARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2012

  • Latin America and Contemporary Modernity

    Open AccessMaarten Van DeldenARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2011

    Domingues, José M. ( 2008 ) Latin America and Contemporary Modernity: A Sociological Interpretation , Routledge ( New York and London ), xix + 210 pp. £60.00 hbk . Modernity has had a lot of bad press among contemporary Latin American thinkers. Think of the work of Walter Mignolo, for whom modernity is linked not to science, progress or democracy, but to colonialism. From Mignolo's perspective, modernity is to blame for much of what is wrong with…

  • Mexico and the United States

    Maarten Van DeldenARTICLEDiscourse2001

    The Mexican monthly review Vuelta was founded by Octavio Paz in 1976, shortly after a conflict with government had forced Paz and his collaborators to abandon Plural a periodical he had edited since 1971. For almost twenty-two years, until August 1998, when it ceased publication in wake of Paz's death, Vuelta occupied a preeminent position in Mexican intellectual life. Over years, Vuelta consistently presented itself as an independent publication…

  • Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

    Carlos J Alonso, Maarten Van DeldenARTICLEHispania2000

  • Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

    Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, Denis L Heyck et al.ARTICLEHispanic Review2000

    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 experimen…

  • Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

    Charles B Moore, Maarten Van DeldenARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1998

  • Gifts and Games in Frank Martinus Arion's Dubbelspel

    Maarten Van DeldenARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1997

    Frank Martinus Arion's Dubbelspel , a brilliant exploration of Curacaoan society in the wake of the riots of May 30, 1 9692 opens with three epigraphs, two of which help to establish the decidedly ironic tone of the novel. The first epigraph is from an essay by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell speaks of how Tsar Nicholas M's indifference to politics was matched only by his passion for dominoes. Apparently, on the very eve of the 1917 Revolution…

  • Carlos Fuentes

    Maarten Van DeldenARTICLEModern Language Notes1993

    In Valiente mundo nuevo (1990), his most recent collection of essays, Carlos Fuentes writes that he, too, believes modernity has come to an end. But there is a problem with Fuentes's position: the forces he describes as instrumental to the overcoming of modernity, he elsewhere defines as intrinsic to modernity. Fuentes himself is aware of this complication, for when he speaks of the exhaustion of lo que Jean-Francois Lyotard llama 'los metarrelat…