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Alejo Carpentier

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alejo Carpentier , 1904-80, Cuban novelist and musicologist. As a political exile in Paris between 1928 and 1939, Carpentier was strongly influenced by Antonin Artaud, Jacques Prévert, and the surrealists. Reflecting his deep commitment to revolutionary politics, his novels explore the irrational elements of the Latin American world, its rich variety of cultures, and the possibility of its magical transformation. Widely regarded as one of the greatest modern Latin American writers, Carpentier was also important as a theorist of the region's literature and historian of its music. Among his... Read more
magic realism
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... primarily Latin American literary movement that arose in the 1960s. The term has been attributed to the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier , who first applied it to Latin-American fiction in 1949. Works of magic realism mingle realistic portrayals of ordinary ... Read more
Gabriel García Márquez
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... town, and nation and reflecting the influence of writers such as Jorges Luis Borges , Miguel Angel Asturias , and Alejo Carpentier , his work focuses on the physical and moral travail of coastal Colombia, which is given universal meaning in his ... Read more

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Ese idioma: Alejo Carpentier's tongue-ties.(Critical essay)
Symposium; 9/22/2007; Firmat, Gustavo Perez; 787 words ; ... well-publicized discovery that Alejo Carpentier was born in Europe and that ... performances. Keywords: bilingualism, Alejo Carpentier, diglossia, extraterritoriality ... logrado la suprema libertad.--Alejo Carpentier, Viaje a la semilla IN AUTOBIOGRAFIA ... Read more
James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition.(Book review)
The Romanic Review; 1/1/2006; Birkenmaier, Anke; 787 words ; ... Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg ... perspective on Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier's most important works. James ... la primavera, together with Carpentier's little known journalistic ... Read more
Timothy J. Cox Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson.(Book Review)
International Fiction Review; 1/1/2003; Kadish, Doris; 681 words ; ... novelists from Colombia (Manuel Zapata Olivella), Cuba (Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet), Guadeloupe (Maryse Conde, Andre and ... Conde's Moi, Tituba, sorciere ... noire de Salem, and Carpentier's El reino de este mundo, arguing that these three ... Read more
The Kingdom of Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and Alejo Carpentier on the Haitian Revolution
Afro - Hispanic Review; 10/1/2006; Figueroa, Víctor; 787 words ; ... reino de este mundo (1949), by the Cuban Alejo Carpentier. The contrast between James's and Carpentier's works is particularly pertinent because ... beginnings and early development, although Carpentier's novel moves further ahead to include ... Read more
The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean/The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition
Cuban Studies; 1/1/2006; Cooper, Sara E; 787 words ; ... Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg ... excitement will be fulfilled. Not that Carpentier's work itself is prim, boring ... may have focused principally on Carpentier's oeuvre as a way to provide ... Read more
Oedipal and Prodigal Returns in Alejo Carpentier and William Faulkner(*).
The Mississippi Quarterly; 6/22/1999; HANDLEY, GEORGE B.; 787 words ; ... plantation ideology in its obsession with the visibility and readability of genealogical truths. As evident in the works ofAlejo Carpentier and William Faulkner, by at least the 1930s, genealogy was no longer indicative of social status, race, or even of national ... Read more
Rereading A Cuban Master
The Washington Post; 12/24/1989; Alan Cheuse; 787 words ; THE CHASE By Alejo Carpentier Translated from the Spanish By Alfred ... has made the late Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier (who was born in Havana in 1904 ... Donoso in Obscene Bird of Night. Carpentier's political loyalties oddly enough ... Read more
(book review)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 6/22/2001; Post, Christy; 449 words ; Alejo Carpentier. The Chase. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001. 122 pp. Paper: $14.95; Alejo Carpentier. The Lost Steps. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001. 278 pp. Paper: $15.95. Alejo Carpentier, who has been called the inventor of ... Read more
Escalera al Cielo.(El Angel)
Reforma (México D.F., México); 11/14/2004; 787 words ; ... Michael Música galante: Alejo Carpentier El próximo 26 de diciembre ... cumplirá el centenario de Alejo Carpentier, nacido en 1904 en Lausana ... en sostener. Fue la vida de Carpentier, narrada por él mismo ... Read more
LATIN AMERICAN NOVELISTS PONDER INNOCENCE AND GUILT
The Boston Globe; 11/15/1989; Robert Taylor, Globe Staff; 589 words ; ... Dutton, 169 pp., $18.95 THE CHASE By Alejo Carpentier Translated by Alfred Mac Adam Farrar ... in Spanish as "El Acoso" in 1956, Alejo Carpentier's compact novel concerns a revolutionary ... 11/15,10:09 WEDBOOK1 Caption: PHOTO ALEJO CARPENTIER Read more

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