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Ambigüedades Éticas Y Estéticas: La Narrativa Peruana Contemporánea Y La Violencia Política, Gabriel T Saxton-Ruiz
Ambigüedades Éticas Y Estéticas: La Narrativa Peruana Contemporánea Y La Violencia Política, Gabriel T Saxton-Ruiz
Doctoral Dissertations
The dissertation “Ambigüedades éticas y estéticas: La narrativa peruana contemporánea y la violencia política” explores the complex relationship of literature and the recent history of Peru by analyzing ideological positions expressed in three novels, Alonso Cueto’s La hora azul (2005), Santiago Roncagliolo’s Abril rojo (2006), and Daniel Alarcón’s Radio Ciudad Perdida (2007), and in a collection of short stories, Jorge Eduardo Benavides’ La noche de Morgana (2005). This dissertation discusses how these authors employ different literary discourses (detective fiction, literature of the fantastic and the dystopian novel) to recreate artistically the period of internal conflict, as well as the ethical …