Contexts Rather Than Close Readings of Latin American Literature. Issue 1 (19th March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pollard, Scott
• Is Part Of: Latin American research review. Volume 58:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 226
• Page End: 234
• Publication Date: 2023-03-19
• Subjects: Latin America -- Periodicals; 980
• DOI: 10.1017/lar.2022.80
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0023-8791

Abstract

Abstract : This essay reviews the following works: Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Readings . By Nora C. Benedict. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. ix+ 365. $35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780300251418. Oriente no es una pieza de museo: Jorge Luis Borges, la clave orientalista y el manuscrito de "Qué es el budismo." By Sonia Betancort. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2018. Pp. 316. Paperback. ISBN: 9788490129678. Artesana de sí misma: Gabriela Mistral, una intelectual en cuerpo y palabra. By Claudia Cabello Hut. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 240. $45.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781557538079. Jorge Luis Borges in Context . Edited by Robin Fiddian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 285. $116.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108470445. A History of Chilean Literature. Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 654. $115.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108487375. Ascent to Glory: How "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Was Written and Became a Global Classic. By Alvaro Santana-Acuña. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 384. $28.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780231184335.