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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kressner, Ilka, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spanish American literature.
Spanish American fiction.
Space (Architecture) in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Sacred space in literature.
Personal space in literature.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Espace (Architecture) dans la litterature.
Lieux sacres dans la litterature.
Espace personnel dans la litterature.
Litterature hispano-americaine > Adaptations cinematographiques.
Roman hispano-americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Spanish American literature > Film adaptations.
Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Anthologies.
Film adaptations.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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