Gordon Brotherston

Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations.@@@Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through Their Literature.

List of illustrations Prefatory notes Acknowledgements Prologue: America as the fourth world Part I. Text: 1. Provenance 2. Language and its instances 3. Configurations of space 4. Configurations of time Part II. Political Memory: 5. Peten 6. Tollan 7. Turtle Island 8. Tahuantinsuyu Part III. Genesis: 9. Popol Vuh 10. World ages and metamorphosis 11. The epic 12. American cosmos Part IV. Into the language of America 13. The translation process Epilogue Abbreviations used in notes and bibliography Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.

The Emergence of the Latin American Novel

Preface introduction 1. Settings and people 2. Americas magic forest: Miguel Angel Asturias 3. The genesis of America: Alejo Carpentier 4. Survival in the sullied city: Juan Rulfo 6. Intellectual geography Juilo Cortazar 7. Tupac Amaru dismembered: Jose Maria Arguedas 8. Social structures 9. An end to secular solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 10. A permanent home? Notes Index.