Lifting the obsidian mask : the artistic vision of Carlos Fuentes /
Lanin A. Gyurko.
- Potomac, Md., U.S.A. : Scripta Humanistica, 2007.
- 1 online resource (iv, 433 pages)
- Scripta Humanistica ; 158. .
- Scripta Humanistica (Series) ; 158. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-433).
Fuentes's artistic vision-Mexico as history, myth, and Dream -- The founding of the latin american novel of the Boom: la region mas transparente -- A mexican bildungsroman: las buenas conciencias -- The revolution of 1910 and its aftermath: la muerte de Artemio cruz. -- Aura: self, double, and the supernatural -- Morality and double standards: cantar de ciegos. -- The quest for redemption and the equivocal Narrator: cambio de piel. -- The cinematic novel of maria felix: zona sagrada. -- From moctezuma II to Nonoalco in 1968: Todos los Gatos Son Pardos. -- Cumpleaños: the myth and demythification of Jorge Luis Borges. -- Terra nostra: the novela totalizante of three worlds.-- The quest for an autonomous individual and national Identity: la cabeza de la hidra . -- New world, old world, and the supernatural: una Familia lejana. -- The death and resurrection of the cinematic Superstar: orquídeasa la luz de la luna -- Ambrose bierce and pancho villa: gringo viejo. -- Postmodern Fuentes: indeterminacy and the past as Future: Cristobal Nonato. - Latin American independence and the new historical Novel: la campaña. -- Eros and thanatos: diana o la cazadora solitaria. -- Crossing physical, metaphysical and linguistic Frontiers: la Frontera de Cristal. -- The feminist response to artemio cruz: los años con Laura Diaz. -- From the metaphysical to the barbaric: Instinto de Inez -- Beneath the obsidian mask: a vision of openness -- Chronology-- Introduction: Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16 Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Conclusion: Selected bibliography.