Malady and genius : self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature /

Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trigo, Benigno (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Colección:SUNY series, insinuations.
Temas:
Puerto Rican literature > History and criticism.
Self-sacrifice in literature.
Literature and society > Puerto Rico.
Littérature portoricaine > Histoire et critique.
Dévouement dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Porto Rico.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Literature and society.
Puerto Rican literature.
Kolonialismus
Literatur
Selbstaufopferung > Motiv
Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Scenes of self-undoing : malady and genius of the Puerto Rican soul
  • Psyche, history, language, and body in Antigona Pérez by Luis Rafael Sánchez
  • The gift of abjection : the look of love in René́ Marqués
  • Vicissitudes of perversion : from "El puertorriqueño dócil" to El capitán de los dormidos
  • Zona. Carga y descarga : minor literature in a penal colony
  • Colonial sublimations of a noir eros in "El josco" and two detective novels
  • Shame, repetition, and forgiveness in queer Latino Testimonio : impossible motherhood and Diario de una puta humilde
  • Conclusion: The scene of self-sacrifice in literary discourse : between perversion and sublimation.

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