Fuentes, Terra Nostra, And The Reconfiguration Of Latin American Culture (Volume 1),New

Fuentes, Terra Nostra, And The Reconfiguration Of Latin American Culture (Volume 1),New

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Widely acknowledged as Carlos Fuentess most ambitious novel, Terra Nostra is a paradigmshifting work that has generated a virtual cottage industry of scholarly analysis. Michael Abeyta has now taken a new approach to this celebrated novel by considering how giving a gift is like telling a story.Grounding his study on the work of Derrida and Bataille, Abeyta focuses on the theme of the gift in Terra Nostra, analyzing how gift giving, excess, expenditure, sacrifice, and exchange give shape to the novel. The question of giving leads him into contemplations of such parallel issues as money and exchange economies, the gifts role in art and narration, and the Baroque in Latin American culturean elaborate set of arguments that puts Fuentess understanding of Latin American culture in a surprising new light.Blending literary theory with economic anthropology, philosophy, and Latin American studies, Abeyta analyzes the deconstructive functions of rhetorical figures and tropes in Terra Nostra to show how the novels revival of Baroque style integrates European and Nahuatl figural strategies. In the process, he reveals the novels relevance to current discussions about the relationship between art and the question of the gift. He then goes on to examine Fuentess Baroque in relation to Terra Nostras reconfiguration of Latin American cultural history.Abeytas study opens new windows on this difficult work as he grapples intelligently with the sometimes dizzying conceptual dances that Fuentes performs. He shows how Fuentess rereading of Latin American history confronted important changes during the initial encounter between Europe and the Americas, which coincided with the spread of the European market and the shift from a gift to an exchange economyfrom a culture in which economic relations were based on sacrifices, tributes, or gifts to one in which market forces predominated. He also engages in the recent scholarly debate on the potlatch and its implications in New World culture.As Abeyta reveals, underlying Fuentess treatment of the gift is a deep questioning of utopian thought and its impact throughout Latin Americas history. His insights help define Terra Nostras place in current discussions in literary theory about art, economy, and the question of the gift, and this work stands to be hailed as one of the most perceptive readings of the novel yet to appear.

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