Practicing Memory in Central American Literature. Nicole Caso

Practicing Memory in Central American Literature



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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Page: 288
ISBN: 0230620361, 9780230620360

Review

"Memory, defined as Caso does, becomes also a powerful tool for the less privileged members of society to resist political impositions intended to create a space racially, politically, and intellectually homogenous. But what seems most remarkable about this book is not only its definition of the term memory but what follows: an innovative comprehension of the role of literature as an instrument for transforming an established idea of history in Central America . . . Caso's reading of the encounter of history and literature in Central America is certainly intelligent, well written, and structurally solid."--The Latin Americanist

“In this striking book, Caso explores Central American fiction as a productive site to fathom the complex project of Latin American modernity and developmentalism in the twentieth century. She meditates on what it means for a region to be considered an ‘isthmus,’ a passageway from elsewhere to elsewhere, a small unit of land that stands as a trope for Banana Republics, revolutions, or drug-trafficking. Rather than taking texts in isolation or reading them as representatives of the whole, Caso highlights instances of regional voices, listening to the ‘sighs and whispers’ that traditional historiographers exclude from their accounts. In Casos’s reading, creativity becomes a tool for subverting official history, breaking the silencing of alternative understandings of what the nation and the region are supposed to represent. Literature thus plays a regenerative role and counters social complacency.”—Arturo Arias, Professor, Deptartment of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin

"Caso's project focuses on the writing of history from different positions and textual practices; thus, her book not only "gives" the history of Central America but also examines the discursive constructions of "history" in selected texts. We need more published scholarship on this literature, and this book will provide a much welcomed critical page in the corpus of Central American literary and cultural studies . . . it promises to be a significant contribution to the field."—Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Maryland, College Park and author of Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures

About the Author

Nicole Caso is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Bard College. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Revista Iberoamericana and Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos, and she has contributed to critical compilations analyzing the works of various novelists such as Manlio Argueta from El Salvador and Rosa María Britton from Panama.



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