Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics

by De Castro, Juan E.; Birns, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780230105294
• ISBN10: 0230105297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Written from diverse perspectives, the eleven essays that make upVargas Llosa and Latin American Politicsportray the Peruvian novelist not only as one of the most celebrated writers of the last 50 years, but also as a central influence on the region's political evolution. Ever since his conversion to free market ideology in the 1980s, Mario Vargas Llosa has waged public battle against what he believes are the scourges of socialism and populism. This book studies the fiction and journalism of Vargas Llosa in the context of his political thought.

Author Biography

Juan E. De Castro teaches at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts.  He is the author of Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature (2002) and The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production (2008).

Nicholas Birns teaches at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, His book include Understanding Anthony Powell (2004), A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 (2007), and Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory Since 1950 (2010). 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Timeline	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Mario Vargas Llosa and the Neoliberal Turn
Mr. Vargas Llosa Goes to Washington	p. 21
The Wars of an Old-Fashioned (Neoliberal) Gentleman	p. 29
"Let's Make Owners and Entrepreneurs": Glimpses of Free Marketeers in Vargas Llosa's Novels	p. 47
The Writings of the 1980s and 1990s
Appropriation in the Backlands: Is Mario Vargas Llosa at War with Euclides da Cunha?	p. 71
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Fabulist of Queer Cleansing	p. 85
Going Native: Anti-indigenism in Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and Death in the Andes	p. 103
The Recovered Childhood: Utopian Liberalism and Mercantilism of the Skin in A Fish in the Water	p. 125
Mario Vargas Llosa in the Twenty-First Century
Sex, Politics, and High Art: Vargas Llosa's Long Road to The Feast of the Goat	p. 139
Humanism and Criticism: The Presence of French Culture in Vargas Llosa's Utopia	p. 159
Mario Vargas Llosa, Man of Letters
Vargas Llosa's Self-Definition as "The Man Who Writes and Thinks"	p. 173
Vargas Llosa and the History of Ideas: Avatars of a Dictionary	p. 189
Works Cited	p. 213
Contributors	p. 227
Index	p. 229
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