Rolena Adorno. The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative

Abstract

"The culmination of three decades of research and reflection about colonial texts and their legacies" (vii), this book spans boundaries of geography and time, equally at home in colonial Mexico, Peru, North America, and imperial Spain. [...] Chapter 12 looks at the way historical figures of the colonial era are re-created by Reinaldo Arenas and Alejo Carpentier.