Deconstructing Paradise investigates fiction by Arlt, Asturias, Borges, Castellanos, Cortazar, Donoso, Garcia Marquez, Garro, Rulfo, Vargas Llosa, and other authors that inverts Christian symbols to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. Each text underscores a search for meaning that rejects the centering presence of the more traditional Christian focus and, when considered together, the texts underscore a broad pattern to facilitate the synthesis of a large body of twentieth-century Latin American literature.
- | Author: Patricia E. Reagan
- | Publisher: Lexington Books
- | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 160 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1498524710
- | ISBN-13: 9781498524711