{"product_id":"autobiographical-writing-in-latin-america-sergio-r-franco-9781604979794","title":"Autobiographical Writing in Latin America: Folds of the Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eAutobiography has never been foreign to Latin American literature. However, during the twentieth century, the production of autobiographical writing has only intensified. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Latin American writings of the self (autobiographies, journals, memoirs) have emerged as a rich and varied corpus of Latin American literature, both for the quantity of texts and for reasons of aesthetic relevance.\u003cbr\u003e How can this development be explained? What change, if any, has taken place that can explain this narrative inflection? To what drives or cultural logics does it respond? Responding to these questions can be difficult since the relations between society and artistic production are far from mechanical; there are diverse cultural mediations at stake. Even so, in what follows I will attempt to set forth some considerations that might help to clarify the situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutobiographical Writing in Latin America: Folds of the Self\u003c\/em\u003e is intended to fill a void. With the exception of this book's antecedent, At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), by Sylvia Molloy, there are no similar publications in existence. Molloy's foundational text studies a distinct period (the 19th and early 20th centuries), as well as a different set of authors than the five analyzed in my book. Latin American autobiographies, memoirs and journals\u003cbr\u003e This study examines the diversity of narrative strategies utilized by these authors to design their \"written life,\" not only with respect to the future (that is, to History), but rather in terms of their own present, deliberately inserting themselves into their societies. In conclusion, this book's novelty and innovation lies in its examination of a corpus that has never before been systematically studied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutobiographical Writing in Latin America: Folds of the Self\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a reflection on contemporary Spanish American autobiographical discourse through four essays. It examines the Spanish American autobiographical discourse in terms of the invalidation or problematization of the great metanarratives of progress and liberation, the debilitation of the political, the emergence of marginal and marginalized subjectivities, an increased ecological consciousness, the climax of a social trend towards the visual and the spatial, as well as the vindication of intimism and the value of sensitivity and everyday socialities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is primarily intended for academics specializing in the canonical authors studied (Jos  Agust n, Reinaldo Arenas, Jos  Donoso, Salvador Elizondo, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Carlos Monsiv is, Mario Vargas Llosa, just to name the more famous ones). Secondary audiences include specialists in autobiographies and memoirs, and historians, sociologists and cultural critics studying Spanish America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*The 2017 Premio Iberoamericano Award Committee of the Latin American Studies Association awarded an honorable mention to\u003cem\u003e Pliegues del yo: Cuatro estudios sobre escritura autobiogr fica en Hispanoam rica\u003c\/em\u003e, the Spanish version of this book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is in the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series headed by Rom n de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sergio R. Franco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1604979798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604979794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambria Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Sergio R. Franco","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44190818533631,"sku":"9781604979794","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95fb8fe6-847a-4527-a082-b858a867411f.jpg?v=1690872538","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/autobiographical-writing-in-latin-america-sergio-r-franco-9781604979794","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}