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Adalberto Ortiz: From Margin to Center
Contributor(s): Lewis, Marvin A. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1611461332     ISBN-13: 9781611461336
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
OUR PRICE: $105.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | African
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
Dewey: 863
LCCN: 2013047146
Series: New Directions in Africana Studies
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (0.85 lbs) 158 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 261
 
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Publisher Description:
Pablo Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (1914-2002) was one of the most gifted writers in Ecuador and all of Latin America. Yet outside of Ecuador and amongst Afro-Hispanic literature scholars in the United States, little critical attention has been given to this pioneer whose multi-genre contributions spanned decades. In his writings, Ortiz explores some of the defining social issues in the Americas since the African and European encounters with the New World, including the notion of "race." He articulates a complex process of affirming the ethnic while not denying the national. Consequently, miscegenation-a biological process-as well as acculturation are motifs in his writings, which explore the essence of what it means to be Ecuadorian. Ortiz does not dwell upon the so-called "race" question, the issue that causes such anxiety and hostility, overtly and covertly, in the United States. Rather, he explores, in depth, ethnicity, class, and caste in his earlier writings and evolves into an international writer while maintaining a strong black awareness. Adalberto Ortiz's transcendence of victimization to a broader view of the world is indicative of the title of Marvin A. Lewis' analysis -from margin to center-and reflective of the approach taken by many Afro-Hispanic writers. The dialectical nature of Ortiz's writings makes his work particularly interesting and rewarding, as revealed in Adalberto Ortiz: From Margin to Center. In this book, Lewis examines the form and content relationships between works published during different literary periods and movements. Emphasis is placed on Ortiz's transition from the local to the international in each genre, and the theoretical approach is "eclectic," depending upon the exigencies of the texts. Ecocriticism, post-colonialism, post-modernism, and other methodologies addressing the environment, place/displacement, identity, and historiographic metafiction are fundamental to the Lewis' readings of Ortiz's prose and poetry.
 
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