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Fábula Del Poder

Daniel Chávez Landeros
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  • ISBN 9781612499062
  • Weight: 272g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Purdue University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A noncommissioned officer of the Nicaraguan National Guard travels to New York to meet the famous bodybuilder, Charles Atlas. When he approaches his hero, he finds a body pierced with syringes and tubes, a cyborg of fragile artificial life. In the garden of a Central American dictator's mansion, a prisoner is locked in a cage next to a lion's. Nature and animal instinct will take their course. In post-Sandinista Nicaragua, an amputee policeman must face—alone and wounded—a drug gang commanded by his former guerrilla leader. Despite the gravity and violence present in many of Sergio Ramírez Mercado's short stories and novels, his writing is governed by irony and parody. Fábula del Poder proposes a novel critical assessment of the narrative work of Ramírez, who won the Cervantes Prize in 2017, emphasizing the mechanisms of representation and criticism of power in contemporary Latin American literature. In an entertaining and dynamic way, the book applies an interdisciplinary, theoretical approach, borrowing concepts from political theory, literary criticism, video games, visual culture, and sports, and reviews the contemporary historiography of Nicaragua and Latin America.

Un suboficial de la Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua viaja a Nueva York para conocer al célebre fisicoculturista Charles Atlas. Cuando logra acercarse al héroe, encuentra un cuerpo traspasado de jeringas y mangueras, un cíborg de frágil vida artificial. En el jardín de la mansión de un dictador centroamericano, un prisionero es encerrado en la jaula contigua a la de un león. La naturaleza y el instinto animal seguirán su curso. En la Nicaragua post-sandinista, un policía amputado de una pierna debe enfrentar—solo y herido—a una banda de narcotraficantes comandada por su antiguo jefe guerrillero. A pesar de la gravedad y violencia de las historias contadas en muchos de los cuentos y las novelas de Sergio Ramírez Mercado, su obra está regida por la ironía y la parodia. Fábula del Poder propone una novedosa valoración crítica de la obra narrativa de Ramírez, quien recibió el Premio Cervantes en 2017, haciendo énfasis en los mecanismos de representación y crítica del poder en la literatura contemporánea de América Latina. De manera amena y dinámica el libro utiliza un marco teórico interdisciplinario y aplica conceptos de teoría política, crítica literaria, videojuegos, cultura visual y deportiva, y repasa la historiografía contemporánea de Nicaragua y América Latina.
About Daniel Chavez Landeros
Daniel Chávez Landeros is an associate professor of international affairs as well as Latin American and Latinx visual culture and literature at the University of New Hampshire. His articles on poetry, narrative, film, television, and comics have appeared in journals in Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He obtained a PhD in Romance languages and film criticism from the University of Michigan. His other books include Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia, and poetry collections Versiones en Luna Agreste y Nitrato de Plata and Raya y suerte.

Daniel Chávez Landeros es profesor asociado de estudios internacionales, literatura y cultura visual de México, América Latina y de latinos en los EEUU en la Universidad de New Hampshire. Sus artículos sobre poesía, narrativa, estudios internacionales, cine, televisión y comics han sido publicados en revistas académicas de México, España, Inglaterra y los Estados Unidos. Cursó el doctorado en lenguas romances y crítica cinematográfica en la Universidad de Michigan. Sus otros libros incluyen Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopía y las colecciones de poesía Raya y Suerte, Hasta Nuevo Aviso, y Versiones en Luna Agreste y Nitrato de Plata.

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