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- Title: Newer Than Nuevas Novelas: Hetorical Challenges and Ethical Import of Fetal Narrators in Ariel Dorfman's la Ultima Cancion de Manuel Sendero and Carlos Fuentes' Cristobal Nonato.
- Author : Hispanofila
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 255 KB
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IN the mid-twentieth century one of the hallmarks of the Latin American nueva novela was a kaleidescopic multiplication of new narrators. Not only did novelists of that period experiment with fragmented and multiplied storytellers and those whose perspective was shaped by paranoia, schizophrenia or hallucinogens; they explored the boundaries of narrative possibility in extremis as Artemio Cruz lay dying and Bombal's amortajada commented on her own wake. It would take longer for several novelists to push the other end of the narrative envelope: it was not until the nineteen-eighties that Ariel Dorfman and Carlos Fuentes situated narrators in utero with La ultima cancion de Manuel Sendero (1982) and Cristobal Nonato (1987). (1) Fuentes' nine chapter novel is bounded by the conception on January 6th, Epiphany, of one Cristobal Palomar, and his birth on September 15th, Dia de la Raza. The novel's central conceit is a grand quincentennial contest offering wealth, power and national sovereignty, all to go to the boy born in Mexico on October 12, 1992 whose family name most resembles that of the Admiral of the Encounter. Santiago Juan-Navarro compares the unfolding of Cristobal