Body of Writing : Figuring Desire in Spanish American Literature /

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A psychoanalytic exploration through a series of reading of Latin American fiction of Roland Barthes' contention that literary texts have human form and are always an anagram of our erotic body.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prieto, Rene
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Menselijk lichaam.
Fictie.
Spaans.
Spanish American fiction.
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Roman hispano-americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Julio Cortázar's perpetual exile
  • More than meets the I: Guillermo Cabrera Infante's La Habana para un Infante difunto
  • The excremental vision of Gabriel García Márquez
  • The degraded body in the work of Severo Sarduy
  • Rewriting the body: renewal through language in the work of Rosario Castellanos
  • The body of pleasure in Tununa Mercado's Canon de alcoba.

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