Sarduy'sColibríand the search for discursive foundations in the regional novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5674368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos Riobó (Classical and Modern Languages Departement, The City College of New York-CUNY, New York, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-68 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0826-3663 • E-ISSN: 2333-1461 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08263663.2017.1283780 |
| OpenAlex | W2592353298 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay will examine Sarduy's novel Colibrí as an attempt at reinterpreting classics of the Latin American regional novel such as José Eustasio Rivera's La Vorágine and Rómulo Gallegos' Doña Bárbara. Sarduy radically reexamines those earlier novels and finds that they already contain generic, racial, and sexual tensions that link them more directly to Boom narrative. He recognizes that these archetypes of the autochthonous modality already contain themes similar to those that will be foregrounded later in contemporary Latin American literature and, therefore, vindicates the regional novel's significance despite its traditional role as the Boom's imperfect, abandoned ancestor within the Latin American canon. Sarduy uncovers the mediated discourses of which the novela de la tierra is composed by exploding its superficial binaries, its supposed logic of purity, and revealing a veiled mestizaje
Ancestor · Archaeology · Archetype · Art · Boom · Imperfect · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |