{"product_id":"conquest-of-the-new-word-johnny-payne-9780292729193","title":"Conquest of the New Word: Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003eLatin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the \"boom\" in Latin American fiction distorted the historical grounding of this writing, erroneously presenting it as mainly an exotic \"magical realism.\" He offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors' careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political rhetoric of the modern state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePayne juxtaposes writers from Argentina and Uruguay with North American authors, setting up suggestive parallels between the diverse but convergent practices of writers on both continents. He considers Nelson Marra in conjunction with Donald Barthelme and Gordon Lish; Teresa Porzecanski with Harry Mathews; Ricardo Piglia with John Barth; Silvia Schmid and Manuel Puig with Fanny Howe and Lydia Davis; and Jorge Luis Borges and Luisa Valenzuela with William Burroughs and Kathy Acker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this innovative, dual-continent approach, \u003ci\u003eConquest of the New Word\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to everyone working in Latin American literature, women's studies, translation studies, creative writing, and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Johnny Payne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292729197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292729193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Johnny Payne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913559376127,"sku":"9780292729193","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_109aa9aa-ab7b-4f22-8200-8509889b45e2.jpg?v=1680621052","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conquest-of-the-new-word-johnny-payne-9780292729193","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}