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• W4379622721 abstract "234 Reviews Heredia in his Spanish-language novel Una familia lejana (1980), thus 'retrieving' (as Diaz puts it) the latter for Spanish American culture, despite his renown as a French Parnassian and member of the Academie Francaise. For convenience, if for no other reason, we often use the term 'Spanish American literature' to indicate the exclusion ofthe literature of other Latin American countries, especially Brazil. This does not necessarily mean, however, that there is a location worth calling 'Spanish America'. Once the Spanish-language criterion is removed, as Diaz suggests it should be, there seems little point in persisting with a term that has a lingering colonial flavour. Diaz questions his own assumption in the afterword, but his hesitation is brief and his final justification?that the concept of Spanish American literature is 'venerable'?lacksconviction, and does not deal with the matter of location. As the debate during the last century or more has shown, 'Latin America' is the term preferred by Latin Americans. Moreover, the diversity of cultures within the area is so great that it is often deemed best to speak of numerous Latin American cultures rather than one. Do national or state boundaries determine a culture, or do the ethnic origins of communities outweigh the significance of nations or states? These too are vital questions. It is odd to argue that writing in English or in French may qualify an author forinclusion in the 'Spanish American house', while writing in Quechua apparently does not. Like Quechua, Portuguese receives no mention in this book. It is implied that writing in Portuguese denotes an entirely differentculture. In these respects, therefore, Diaz's contribution to the debate looks idiosyncratic and flawed. However, few would dispute the underlying basis of his argument: that in multicultural societies there is value in including the voices of minorities, in whatever language. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 contain a wealth of detailed comparative analysis, and may well prove to other readers, as to the reviewer, to be the most successful. The book as a whole is recommended for the fact that it undoubtedly adopts a new angle fromwhich to study a specific type of writer,and presents an original and challenging point of view on broad cultural issues. University of Hull Peter Beardsell Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile. By Gisela Norat. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 264 pp. ?35. ISBN 0-87413-761-6. This collection of essays is the first book-length study of the novelistic and nonfictional body of work ofthe contemporary Chilean author Diamela Eltit. Consisting of an introduction followed by six essays, this study offers a critical analysis of the five novels and two non-fictional texts published by Eltit between 1983 and 1995, a period that spans the latter half of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-90) and the return of a democratically elected government in Chile. Norat states that the aim of her study is to offer'a practical tool for first-timeor hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particular book or books' (p. 16). The essays approach her firstfive novels individually, rather than thematically, and a brief reading ofher sixth novel, Los trabajadores de la muerte(1998), is included in the form of an epilogue. In her second essay Norat offersa joint analysis of Eltit's two non-fictional texts: the transcription ofthe testimony of a vagrant in El padre mio (1989), and a photo-essay that chronicles the residents of a psychiatric hospital in Chile, El infartodel alma (1994), co-authored with the Chilean photographer Paz Errazuriz. English translations of the titles of Eltit's texts, and of quotations from her work, are included throughout. This study takes as its starting point the theme of 'marginalities', in terms both of Eltit's marginal position as a woman writer in Latin America and of the intersection MLRy 99.1,2004 235 of social, political, sexual, ethnic, and gendered categories of marginality that are critically examined in her work. The introduction opens by addressing the labels of 'difficult' and 'cryptic' that have been associated with Eltit's texts since the publication of her first,and radically experimental..." @default.
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• W4379622721 title "Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile by Gisela Norat (review)" @default.
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