Millar Forms of Disappointment

Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7592-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Millar, Lanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Allegory and Aesthetics in the Post-Revolution

1. Silence and the People in Boaventura Cardoso’s Maio, Mês de Maria and Mãe, Materno Mar

2. Postwar Cinematic Politics and the Structures of Disappointment

Part II. The Mobility of Form

3. The War Abroad and the War at Home: Eliseo Alberto’s Caracol Beach

4. Revolution from the South in J. E. Agualusa’s O Ano em que Zumbi Tomou o Rio

Part III. Genre, Style, and Empire

5. Deferred Time and Belated Histories in Leonardo Padura’s El hombre que amaba a los perros

6. Post-Revolutionary Pastiche in Pepetela’s Jaime Bunda Novels

Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lanie Millar is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Oregon.