Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction
Cambridge University Press, 9/14/1989
EAN 9780521362238, ISBN10: 0521362237
Hardcover, 244 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
This 1989 book is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel. Zamora explores the history of the myth of apocalypse, from the Bible to medieval and later interpretations, and relates this to the development of American apocalyptic attitudes. She demonstrates that the symbolic tensions inherent in the apocalyptic myth have special meaning for postmodern writers.
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
the apocolyptic vision and fictions of historic desire
2. Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Apocolypse and entropy
physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon
4. Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortazar
5. The apocalypse of style
John Barth's self-consuming fiction
6. Apocolypse and renewal
Walker Percy and the US South
7. Beyond apocalypse
Carlos Fuente's Terra Nostra
8. Individual and communal conclusions
Notes
Index.