Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tania rises out of the ashes of another, the struggling spirit of an obscure Russian revolutionary passes through the body of a Latin American guerilla to live on in the unlikely incarnation of a kidnapped American heiress, and the revolution continues. The individual Tanias throw off their bourgeois identities to merge into a greater Tania, a Tania who lives and breathes the revolution...
...allowed to indulge briefly in what she herself calls "bourgeois introspection." Here we get a glimpse of the fears, the isolation, the stifled doubts that flesh out an otherwise two-dimensional character who always seems to be singing cheerfully about fighting "imperialismo." Working as a spy in Europe and Latin America. Tania adopts a succession of bourgeois identities--including one that she describes as "a cross between Sophia Loren and Minnie Mouse"--until she is no longer sure of her own identity and has a nightmare in which she is denied any identity at all. The audience can share Tania...
...bring charges against the United States in the United Nations for its domestic oppression of blacks. He drew parallels between the colonized status of Africans and Afro-Americans. "Travel broadens one's scope," Malcolm was fond of saying. As he learned that the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America were exploited by the same international economic system, and therefore faced a common enemy, he extended his black nationalism to the next logical stage: internationalism. He developed a Third World, anti-imperialist analysis...
...Other American Novel confidently barrels on oblivious to paper shortages and critical advisories that less is more. Throughout Central and South America, writers still seem willing to tackle the long, complex novel of politics, society and class. Open to most literary influences and rarely shy about blending them, Latin American authors frequently give the impression that they are catering a novel rather than composing one. There are exceptions. Argentina's Jorges Luis Borges, for example, builds exquisite doll houses from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences...
Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...