Gunshots at the Fiesta : Literature and Politics in Latin America - Maarten van Delden Crime could change everything I've spent

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Gunshots at the Fiesta : Literature and Politics in Latin America - Maarten van Delden Crime could change everything I've spentThe 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