TY - BOOK
T1 - Latin American documentary narratives
T2 - The intersections of storytelling and journalism in contemporary literature
AU - Chávez Díaz, Liliana
N1 - Funding: The development of their research for this book took the author from Mexico to the United Kingdom, and later to Spain, Germany, Argentina, Chile and the United States of America. It would not have been possible without the Cambridge Trust-CONACyT Scholarship, nor without the financial support of a Gibson Spanish Scholarship and a SEP Scholarship from Mexico. Travel grants from Fitzwilliam College, the Simón Bolívar Fund at CLAS, Santander Universities Fund, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Cambridge and the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin were also crucial for conducting fieldwork and presenting their findings at conferences. Thanks are also due to Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez in Buenos Aires for the resources and information they generously assisted with. Turning their PhD thesis into this book was substantially aided by an Edmundo O’Gorman fellowship at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, in 2020.
PY - 2021/12/2
Y1 - 2021/12/2
N2 - Latin American Documentary Narratives unpacks the precarious testimonial relationship between author and subject, where the literary journalist, rather than the subject being interviewed, can become the hero of a narrative in its recording and retelling.Latin American Documentary Narratives covers a variety of nonfiction genres from the 1950s to the 2000s that address topics such as social protests, dictatorships, natural disasters, crime and migration in Latin America. This book analyzes – and includes an appendix of interviews with – authors who have not previously been critically read together, from the early and emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez and Elena Poniatowska to more recent authors, like Leila Guerriero and Juan Villoro, who are currently reshaping media and audiences in Latin America. In a world overwhelmed by data production and marked by violent acts against those considered 'others', Liliana Chávez Díaz argues that storytelling plays an essential role in communication among individuals, classes and cultures.
AB - Latin American Documentary Narratives unpacks the precarious testimonial relationship between author and subject, where the literary journalist, rather than the subject being interviewed, can become the hero of a narrative in its recording and retelling.Latin American Documentary Narratives covers a variety of nonfiction genres from the 1950s to the 2000s that address topics such as social protests, dictatorships, natural disasters, crime and migration in Latin America. This book analyzes – and includes an appendix of interviews with – authors who have not previously been critically read together, from the early and emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez and Elena Poniatowska to more recent authors, like Leila Guerriero and Juan Villoro, who are currently reshaping media and audiences in Latin America. In a world overwhelmed by data production and marked by violent acts against those considered 'others', Liliana Chávez Díaz argues that storytelling plays an essential role in communication among individuals, classes and cultures.
KW - Latin American Literature
KW - Latin American studies
KW - Journalism
KW - Chronicle
KW - Testimony
KW - Literary journalism
UR - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/latin-american-documentary-narratives-9781501366024/
UR - https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=978-1-5013-6601-7&rn=1
U2 - 10.5040/9781501366048
DO - 10.5040/9781501366048
M3 - Book
SN - 9781501366017
BT - Latin American documentary narratives
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - London
ER -
