Allende, Feitlowitz, and Costa-Gavras -- Visions of Fear, Loss, and Mysticism in South America

Abstract: This 6 page report discusses the vision created of the nations of South America by best-selling novelist Isabel Allende in Of Love and Shadows, investigative writer Marguerite Feitlowitz in Lexicon of Terror, and movie director/writer Costa-Gavras in the 1982 movie Missing establishes the vision of a world of frightening, yet often lyrical, contrasts. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

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Catagory: Latin-America / Mixed

Subcatagory: Latin-American & Carribean Studies

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