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Arguedas / Vargas Llosa

Dilemmas and Assemblages

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Mabel Moraña

    1. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-5

  3. Opening

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    Pages 7-11

  4. Arguedas and Vargas Llosa, or the Dilemmas of the Model Intellectual

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    Pages 13-37

  5. Archaism as Floating Signifier

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    Pages 39-68

  6. Language as a Battlefield (I): The Dilemma of the Sign

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    Pages 69-102

  7. Language as a Battlefield (II): The Narcissism of the Voice

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    Pages 103-128

  8. Toward a Poetics of Social Change: Truth, Modernity, and the National Subject in José María Arguedas

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    Pages 129-162

  9. Which Truth? Otherness and Melodrama in Vargas Llosa

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    Pages 163-220

  10. Endpoint? Death/The Nobel Prize

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    Pages 221-248

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 249-275
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About this book

An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

    Mabel Moraña

About the author

 Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is the Director of the Latin American Studies Program. She has published more than forty authored and edited books, including  Bourdieu en la periferia (2014), Inscripciones críticas (2014), and Churata postcolonial (2015).  In 2014, the Spanish-language edition of Arguedas/Vargas Llosa was the recipient of both the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, given by the Modern Language Associate and the Premio Iberoamericano by Latin American Studies Association.  

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