Pragmatic Passions

Pragmatic Passions

Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative

Demonstrates how melodrama is deployed as a convincing means of affectively narrating socio-political messages, yet how it also unwittingly undermines the narrative structure of paradigmatic works by Rómulo Gallegos, César Vallejo, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Amado, and Carlos Fuentes.
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • A Note on Translations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Stirring Emotion, Assessing Progress
  • Chapter 1: Doña Bárbara or the Complications of Clear-Cut Melodrama
  • Chapter 2: Suffering and Retribution: The Politicized Theatrics of El tungsteno
  • Chapter 3: What More Can One Man Do? Disillusionment and Conformity in El amor brujo
  • Chapter 4: Romance, Intrigue, and More in Gabriela, Cravo e Canela
  • Chapter 5: Episodes of Passion and Remorse: The Excesses of La muerte de Artemio Cruz
  • Postscript: And then… Melodrama Beyond the Boom
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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