Title Writing the Apocalypse : historical vision in contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PQ7082.N7 Z36 1989	Available	---

Description	ix, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 193-227.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Introduction: Apocalyptic vision and fictions of historical desire -- Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez -- Apocalypse and entropy: physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon -- Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortázar -- Apocalypse of style: John Barth's self-consuming fiction -- Apocalypse and renewal: Walker Percy and the U.S. South -- Beyond apocalypse: Carlos Fuentes's Terra nostra -- Individual and communal conclusions.
Subject	Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Spanish American fiction.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
	Historical fiction, Spanish American -- History and criticism.
	Historical fiction, Spanish American.
	Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
	Historical fiction, American.
Indexed Term	Fiction in English American writers, 1945- - Critical studies
	Fiction in Spanish Latin American writers - Critical studies
	Fiction in Portuguese Brazilian writers, 1921- - Critical studies
Subject	Novela americana -- Siglo XX -- Historia y crítica
	Novela histórica hispanoamericana -- Historia y crítica
ISBN	0521362237
	9780521362238