Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar

Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar

In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. Their fictional mergers of past and present insinuate the reversibility/ambiguity of dreams/repres...

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Main Author: Lois Marie Jaeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico 1999-01-01
Series:Ciencia Ergo Sum
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10401613
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spelling doaj-f9ee63f90a034d73acbe85444a088ae62021-10-08T15:41:00ZengUniversidad Autonoma del Estado de MexicoCiencia Ergo Sum1405-02692395-87821999-01-0163Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio CortázarLois Marie JaeckIn the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. Their fictional mergers of past and present insinuate the reversibility/ambiguity of dreams/representation with physical reality. They thus recognize the authentic presence of Pre-Columbian culture in contemporary Latin American societies and put into question the validity of European/North American materialism.http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10401613
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Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar
Ciencia Ergo Sum
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title Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar
title_short Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar
title_full Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar
title_fullStr Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar
title_full_unstemmed Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar
title_sort houses of horror or magical kingdoms? past times revisited with miguel ángel asturias, carlos fuentes and julio cortázar
publisher Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico
series Ciencia Ergo Sum
issn 1405-0269
2395-8782
publishDate 1999-01-01
description In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. Their fictional mergers of past and present insinuate the reversibility/ambiguity of dreams/representation with physical reality. They thus recognize the authentic presence of Pre-Columbian culture in contemporary Latin American societies and put into question the validity of European/North American materialism.
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