{"product_id":"beyond-individualism-lois-parkinson-zamora-9780226843179","title":"Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin American Literature and Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sweeping analysis of \"archetypical realism\" in Latin American literature and art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Individualism\u003c\/i\u003e examines the portrayal of collective identities over two centuries in Latin American literature and visual art. Lois Parkinson Zamora shows that many authors and artists are less concerned with singular selves than with selves-in-relation: less with individual autonomy than communal affiliation. Their works--sometimes labeled neobaroque, magical realism, surrealism, expressionism, and idealism--resist the kind of psychological realism typical of European and North American novels, moving instead toward a wholly new kind of fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Zamora calls this new Latin American form \"archetypal realism\" because its characters represent entities larger than themselves. They sometimes embody entire communities, cultures, families, religious orders, or ideal planets. Through deft readings of collective characters in fiction by Gabriel García Márquez,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lois Parkinson Zamora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226843173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226843179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Lois Parkinson Zamora","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46927736340735,"sku":"9780226843179","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07d2637e-398e-47ba-9e96-76f2b362d684.jpg?v=1749372804","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-individualism-lois-parkinson-zamora-9780226843179","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}