Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction

Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism.

1. Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction: The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson 2. Ashes of Izalco : Female Narrative Strategies and the History of a Nation; Patricia Varas 3. In Search of the Absent Revolution: Edgardo Rodríguez Julia's Novels of Invented History; Víctor Figueroa 4. The Galleys of History: Mirages and Madness of a Journey; Fernando Burgos 5. Archaeologies of Identity: Revisions of the City and the Nation in Two Novels by Ana María Torres; Elda Stanco 6. Santa Evita, History, Fiction, and Myth: A Narrative from Another Side; Marcelo Coddou 7. Chaos and Simulations of History in Mujer en traje de batalla ; Fátima R. Nogueira 8. The Plural History of Memory: A Polyphonic Novel by Ángela Hernández; Ester Gimbernat González 9. Unsubmissive Imaginaries in the Contemporary Brazilian Historical Novel: A Reading of Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves; Maria Josele Coehlo 10. El sueño del celta : Postcolonial Vargas Llosa; Helene Carol Weldt-Basson