A World Torn Apart

The Editor: Victoria Carpenter received a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Hull. Her area of expertise is twentieth-century Mexican literature, in particular the works of the Mexican Onda and Narrativa Joven. She is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Derby.

Contents: Victoria Carpenter: Introduction: Violence and the Narrative of Latin American Identity - Margarita Serje: Violence as Context: Colonial Landscapes and Frontier Narratives in the Interpretation of Conflict in Colombia - Ori Preuss: 'Hatreds of an Almost Spanish American Crudity': Brazilian Interpretations of the Tumultuous First Republic, 1889-1898 - Sarah Barrow: Violence, Nation and Peruvian Cinema: A Critical Analysis of Bajo la piel (Francisco Lombardi 1996) - Christopher Harris: Hegemonic Masculinity and Violence in Juan Rulfo's El llano en llamas - Gabriel Inzaurralde: Letters from Hell: The Theme of Violence in La pesquisa by Juan José Saer - Mar Langa Pizarro/Jennifer French: Violence in Paraguayan Narrative - Gilda Waldman: Fiction and Politics: Dictatorial Violence in Contemporary Chilean Literature - Victoria Carpenter: 'La sangre en el cemento': Violence, Fantasy and Myth in Poetic Accounts of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre - Claire Williams: The Favela's Revenge: Portrayals of Life in the Shantytowns in Recent Brazilian Fiction - Márcia Hoppe Navarro: Indigenous Women and Forms of Violence in Recent Latin American Literature - Betina Keizman: The Others' Shame: Variations of the Argentinean Abduction Narrative.

«The book is a significant contribution that will be of interest to literary scholars.» (Juan Pablo Dabove, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe)