This volume is the only study to encompass all of Fuentes' writings, including short stories, novels, theatre and essays, from his earliest short stories of the mythic and fantastic, Los días enmascarados, to his unique and enigmatic autobiographical dictionary En esto creo (2002), and his most significant narrative in the twenty-first century, La Silla del Águila (2003). Designed for the students of Latin American Literature as a comprehensive guidebook, for enthusiasts of Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies, and specialists in Latin American Literature, Lifting the Obsidian Mask provides a highly readable, illuminating and invaluable exploration of Fuentes? complex and uncompromising, paradoxical, and fascinating art.
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- CONTENTS
- CHRONOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: FUENTES'S ARTISTIC VISION—MEXICO AS HISTORY, MYTH, AND DREAM
- CHAPTER I: THE FOUNDING OF THE LATIN AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE BOOM: LA REGIÓN MÁS TRANSPARENTE
- CHAPTER II: A MEXICAN BILDUNGSROMAN: LAS BUENAS CONCIENCIAS
- CHAPTER III: THE REVOLUTION OF 1910 AND ITS AFTERMATH: LA MUERTE DE ARTEMIO CRUZ
- CHAPTER IV: AURA: SELF, DOUBLE, AND THE SUPERNATURAL
- CHAPTER V: MORALITY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS: CANTAR DE CIEGOS
- CHAPTER VI: THE QUEST FOR REDEMPTION AND THE EQUIVOCAL NARRATOR: CAMBIO DE PIEL
- CHAPTER VII: THE CINEMATIC NOVEL OF MARÍA FÉLIX: ZONA SAGRADA
- CHAPTER VIII: FROM MOCTEZUMA II TO NONOALCO IN 1968: TODOS LOS GATOS SON PARDOS
- CHAPTER IX: CUMPLEAÑOS: THE MYTH AND DEMYTHIFICATION OF JORGE LUIS BORGES
- CHAPTER X: TERRA NOSTRA: THE NOVELA TOTALIZANTE OF THREE WORLDS
- CHAPTER XI: THE QUEST FOR AN AUTONOMOUS INDIVIDUAL AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: LA CABEZA DE LA HIDRA
- CHAPTER XII: NEW WORLD, OLD WORLD, AND THE SUPERNATURAL: UNA FAMILIA LEJANA
- CHAPTER XIII: THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE CINEMATIC SUPERSTAR: ORQUÍDEAS A LA LUZ DE LA LUNA
- CHAPTER XIV: AMBROSE BIERCE AND PANCHO VILLA: GRINGO VIEJO
- CHAPTER XV: POSTMODERN FUENTES: INDETERMINACY AND THE PAST AS FUTURE: CRISTÓBAL NONATO
- CHAPTER XVI: LATIN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AND THE NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL: LA CAMPAÑA
- CHAPTER XVII: EROS AND THANATOS: DIANA O LA CAZADORA SOLITARIA
- CHAPTER XVIII: CROSSING PHYSICAL, METAPHYSICAL AND LINGUISTIC FRONTIERS: LA FRONTERA DE CRISTAL
- CHAPTER XIX: THE FEMINIST RESPONSE TO ARTEMIO CRUZ: LOS AÑOS CON LAURA DÍAZ
- CHAPTER XX: FROM THE METAPHYSICAL TO THE BARBARIC: INSTINTO DE INEZ
- CONCLUSION: BENEATH THE OBSIDIAN MASK: A VISION OF OPENNESS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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