Gunshots at the Fiesta : Literature and Politics in Latin America - Maarten van Delden Crime heartbreak and laughter' Jennie Godfrey

heartbreak and laughter' Jennie Godfrey

the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography

US Patent Office

We live in an era defined by crisis - whether it be war and displacement

author of How to Fail

Gunshots at the Fiesta : Literature and Politics in Latin America - Maarten van Delden Crime heartbreak and laughter' Jennie GodfreyThe product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world. The apparently seamless blending of literature and politics is reflected in the explicitly political content of much of the continent's writing, as