The Latin American Short Story at its Limits: Fragmentation, by Lucy Bell

By Lucy Bell

The Latin American brief tale has usually been considered when it comes to its relation to orality, culture and delusion. yet this wish to have fun the variation of Latin American tradition unwittingly contributes to its exoticization, failing to do justice to its richness, complexity and contemporaneity. via re-reading and re-viewing the quick tales of Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortazar and Augusto Monterroso, Bell unearths the hybridity of this style. it really is immediately rooted in conventional narrative and fragmented through sleek adventure; its residual features are revived via emergent varieties. Crucially, its oral and legendary features are compounded with the formal characteristics of recent, rising media: images, cinema, telephony, journalism, and caricature art.

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