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Sites of Disquiet : The Non-Space in Spanish American Short Narratives and Their Cinematic Transformations /

Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Such a space is neither a site of projection (as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kressner, Ilka, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Spotting the non-space
  • Into spatial vagueness: Jorge Luis Borges's and Miguel Picazo's Hombre de la esquina Rosada
  • The power of staging: spaces of emulation in Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del heroe" and Bernardo Bertolucci's Strategia del ragno
  • Screening the void: Julio Cortazar's "cartas de mama" and Manuel Antin's and Miguel Picazo's filmic translations
  • Echoes in the dark: Pedro Paramo on the page and on the screen
  • Toward amor vacui: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's and Ruy Guerra's erendiras
  • Epilogue: The non-space revisited.