... backlands” or “hinterlands.” The sertão of Minas Gerais is the same setting that occupies center stage in the work of João Guimarães Rosa and especially his magnum opus, Grande Sertão: Veredas (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, 1956) ...
The Latin American Short Story at its Limits: Fragmentation, Hybridity and Intermediality
... cuentos) (1959), whose hybridity foreshadows that of the fly collection. Each story self-consciously depicts the ways in which cultural objects are exchanged, negotiated and contested, creating a network of relations between different ...
... story of surrealism: beauty, for the surrealists, is the convulsion, subversion and explosion of reality through shock (23). The story resonates with 'La noche boca arriba', in which Cortázar's motorcyclist, like Breton's soldier, is ...
... HAIKU. An ancient form of poetry from Japan, a haiku has three lines. The first and third lines are five syllables long, and the middle line has seven syllables. Haikus don't have to rhyme, but it's good if they evoke a particular mood ...
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