Pragmatic Passions : melodrama and Latin American social narrative

Demonstrates how melodrama is deployed as a convincing means of affectively narrating socio-political messages, yet how it also unwittingly undermines the narrative structure of paradigmatic works by Rómulo Gallegos, César Vallejo, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Amado and Carlos Fuentes. [Publisher's Text].

German ISBN 978-3-95487-380-7.

Joint ed.