Arguedas / Vargas Llosa

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2. Introduction

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3. Opening

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4. Arguedas and Vargas Llosa, or the Dilemmas of the Model Intellectual

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5. Archaism as Floating Signifier

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6. Language as a Battlefield (I): The Dilemma of the Sign

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7. Language as a Battlefield (II): The Narcissism of the Voice

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8. Toward a Poetics of Social Change: Truth, Modernity, and the National Subject in José María Arguedas

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9. Which Truth? Otherness and Melodrama in Vargas Llosa

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10. Endpoint? Death/The Nobel Prize

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11. Back Matter

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An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.

• Arguedas
• Vargas Llosa
• Andean culture
• Andean literature
• postcolonial theory
• multiculturalism
• latin american politics

• Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

  Mabel Moraña

 Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is the Director of the Latin American Studies Program. She has published more than forty authored and edited books, including  Bourdieu en la periferia (2014), Inscripciones críticas (2014), and Churata postcolonial (2015).  In 2014, the Spanish-language edition of Arguedas/Vargas Llosa was the recipient of both the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, given by the Modern Language Associate and the Premio Iberoamericano by Latin American Studies Association.  

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