THE BURIED MIRROR: REFLECTIONS ON SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD(EL ESPEJO ENTERRADO)
Book ID/图书代码： 02230092B14118
English Summary/英文概要： Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World is a major cultural interpretation of the Latin American experience which also takes up, and explores, the political possibilities of pan-Latin Americanism. However, unlike Paulo Freire, Fuentes is not primarily concerned with "the culture of silence" or the political consciousness of the poor as an economically oppressed group. While he would no doubt accept the Freirean assumption that when an oppressed people live in silence, they use the words of their oppressor to describe their experience of oppression and hence fail to achieve liberation, Fuentes is not centrally concerned with the marginals in Latin American society.
Similarly, unlike Eduardo Galeano for example, neither does he focus on the "open veins" of Latin American poverty and colonial exploitation. As a haute Latin American and a grand cultural nationalist, Fuentes stresses the centrality of cultural heritage, and the integrity, diversity, continuity, and richness of that heritage as a basis for political consciousness and economic progress in modern Latin America. Thus he stresses the power of cultural identities, as opposed to class identities, in political regeneration and the political possibilities of culture as a basis for political and economic action.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者对于拉丁美洲文化做了很好的诠释。本书着重于介绍现代拉丁美洲文化遗产的完整性，多样性和丰富性，并在政治意识和经济进步的过程中扮演着重要的角色，并强调文化认同与阶级身份形成鲜明对比。
十五世纪末、十六世纪初，随着哥伦布发现新大陆，拉丁美洲成了欧洲列强殖民扩张的目标。在西班牙、葡萄牙等国家的300多年殖民统治下，印第安文化遭到严重摧残，而西欧的各种文化传统就随着政治、军事征服在拉美确立了它的统治地位，并在拉美各个文化领域如意识形态、宗教、教育、语言、文学艺术、习俗等方面起着主导作用。同时大量非洲黑人奴隶的输入，使非洲的音乐、舞蹈、诗歌、语言、宗教、绘画、习俗等文化也在拉美广为传播，形成殖民地时期拉丁美洲文化的混合结构。
在现代拉丁美洲，文化的主体仍是西欧的传统文化，而土生土长的印第安文化、非洲黑人文化和有限的东方文化则构成拉美文化的次要成分。因此，拉丁美洲的文化独特性构成了富有特色的混合文化结构，使得几种文化成分能和谐、融合地发展。拉丁美洲的文化正是欧洲文化、印第安文化和非洲文化经过长期的碰撞、冲突、渗透、吸收后融合而成的一种统一而又多元的文化。它源于这三种文化而又不同于原有的文化，以崭新的面貌出现在世界上。(RY)
Awards/获奖情况：Mexican novelist and statesman Fuentes believes that a common cultural heritage can help the countries of Latin America transcend disunity and fragmentation. In a splendidly illustrated survey, companion to a TV series, he perceptively explores Spanish America’s love-hate relationship with Spain and its search for an identity in its multicultural roots. His guiding metaphor is the mirror--whether the glass found in Olmec tombs that guided the dead through the underworld, or Cervantes’s Knight of the Mirror, who attempted to cure Don Quixote of madness. In the popular assemblies of medieval Spain’s townships, Fuentes finds a model for democratic change in Latin American nations warped by oligarchy and U.S. imperialism. He paints a composite portrait of a dynamic culture through sophisticated meditations on Hernand Cortes’s Machiavellian character, Spain’s self-mutilating expulsion of its Jews, the pillage of Indian society, Goya and the Enlightenment, Bolivar’s quest for self-rule, modern painting, and the Hispanic community in the U.S. 50,000 first printing; author tour.
About the Author/作者介绍： CARLOS FUENTES拥有20多本著作，包括《阿特尼奥·克鲁兹之死》、《预兆》、《老外》、《和 劳拉·迪亚兹在一起的岁月》等。1975—1977年，出任墨西哥驻法国大使。他一生荣誉不断，曾 获得罗姆罗·加里西亚奖，墨西哥国家文学奖（墨西哥最高文学奖项），塞万提斯奖和首次拉丁 文明奖。他也是法国古罗马军团荣誉奖章、意大利Grinzane Cavour奖，西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王 子奖巴西南十字座奖的获得者。他的作品还频繁出现在“国家”、“浮华集市”、“纽约时报” 、“纽约时报图书版”、“洛杉矶时报图书版”和“华盛顿邮报世界版”等各大报章杂志。目前 他在墨西哥城和伦敦两地居住。
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