An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.
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Introduction. - 1 Opening. - 2 Arguedas and Vargas Llosa, or the Dilemmas of the Model Intellectual. - 3 Archaism as Floating Signifier. - 4 Language as a Battlefield (I): The Dilemma of the Sign. - 5 Language as a Battlefield (II): The Narcissism of the Voice. - 6 Toward a Poetics of Social Change: Truth, Modernity, and the National Subject in José María Arguedas. - 7 Which Truth? : Otherness and Melodrama in Vargas Llosa. - 8 Endpoint? : Death/The Nobel Prize.