McClennen Ariel Dorfman

An Aesthetics of Hope
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9195-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

A critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McClennen, Sophia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Note on Citations and Translations xxi

1. The Political is Personal 1

2. On Becoming a Storyteller: Dorfman's Literary and Cultural Influences 31

3. An Aesthetics of Hope 60

4. Anything Else Would Have Tasted Like Ashes: From Popular Unity to Exile (17970–90) 93

5. I am A Liar Who Always Tells the Truth: From Exile to Diaspora (1990–2005) 152

6. Creative Criticism/Critical Creativity: Media Criticism and Cultural Journalism 244

Conclusion. One among Many 280

Appendix 1: An Ariel Dorfman Chronology 285

Appendix 2: An Ariel Dorfman Bibliography 295

Notes 333

Works Cited 349

Index 361

Über Autor(innen)

Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures.