Practicing Memory in Central American Literature

Through penetrating analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America this book asks: why do so many literary texts in the region address historical issues? What kinds of stories are told about the past when authors choose the fictional realm to represent history? Why access memory through fiction and poetry? Nicole Caso traces the active interplay between language, space, and memory in the continuous process of defining local identities through literature. Ultimately, this book looks to the dynamic between form and content to identify potential maps that are suggested in each of these texts in order to imagine possibilities of action in the future.

Author: N. Caso
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/14/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230620360

About the Author
NICOLE CASO, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Bard College, USA.