Valuing Literature: The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico
This article contends that Mexican writers have drawn on the picaresque to ponder what they regard as the precariousness of intellectual labor in Mexico. It analyzes the role that the afterlives of the picaresque have played in the portrayal of writers as disenfranchised and vulnerable subjects, two...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Latin American Studies Association
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Latin American Research Review |
| Online Access: | https://larrlasa.org/articles/358 |