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This chapter examines how two contemporary Latin American novels (Maldito amor [Sweet Diamond Dust] by Rosario Ferré and La otra selva [The Other Jungle] by Boris Salazar) parody the early twentieth-century “novel of the land” (Enrique Laguerre’s La llamarada [The Flare-up] and José Eustasio Rivera’s La vorágine [The Vortex], respectively). Weldt-Basson illustrates how Ferré appropriates Laguerre’s text from a feminist and postcolonial perspective, while Salazar’s text, although purporting to give a feminist voice to Rivera’s novel, subscribes to traditional patriarchal ideology in its use of paradigms from masculinist crime and hard-boiled detective fiction. Weldt-Basson also shows how Salazar’s text, more than a transposition of La vorágine itself, is a parody of Rivera’s biography written by Eduardo Neale-Silva.
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Weldt-Basson, H.C. (2018). Postmodern Transpositions of the Latin American novela de la tierra: Maldito amor by Rosario Ferré and La otra selva by Boris Salazar. In: Weldt-Basson, H. (eds) Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90430-6_10
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