James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition.(Book review)

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James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004. Pp. 296.

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier's most important works. James Pancrazio deviates from previous critical assessments in that he is not interested in a historical or philological contextualization but rather attempts to read novels like El reino de este mundo, Los pasos perdidos, El siglo de las luces, El arpa y la sombra and La consagraci6n de la primavera, together with Carpentier's little ...

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