Gabriel Zaid, Essayist
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Essay, Spanish-American Essay, Mexican Essay, Genre Theory, Culture, Reading
Abstract
This article examines the unifying ideological and formal elements underlying Gabriel Zaid’s oeuvre. It focuses on three main aspects of his poetics: (1) His peculiar dialectics, which allows him to redefine culture’s realm through a phenomenology of book-reading in the cyberspace era; (2) the tense relations between a writer’s social endeavors and his aesthetics, especially in postcolonial traditions such as those of Spanish-America, with strict expectations about the civic role of intellectuals; and (3) Zaid’s theory of genres and the place the essay and poetry have in it.Downloads
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2010-11-06
How to Cite
Gomes M. (2010). Gabriel Zaid, Essayist. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 39, 19-40. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ALHI/article/view/ALHI1010110019A
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