Collisions with History: Latin American Fiction and Social Science from "El Boom" to the New World Order Volume 36

by Frederick M. Nunn

Latin American intellectuals have traditionally debated their region's history, never with so much agreement as in the fiction, commentary, and scholarship of the late twentieth century. Collisions with History shows how "fictional histories" of discovery and conquest, independence and early nationhood, and the recent authoritarian past were purposeful revisionist collisions with received national versions. These collisions occurred only because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802191
• ISBN13: 9780896802193
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 11.3"