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Juan Goytisolo: The Author as Dissident (Hardcover)
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Juan Goytisolo: The Author as Dissident (Hardcover)
Series: Monografias A
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This book assesses Goytisolo's contribution to cultural debates in
Spain since the sixties and revises the prevailing critical
interpretation of his fiction, arguing that his works represent an
ethical engagement with postmodernist theory rather than an
illustration of it. This monograph offers two new perspectives on
Spanish writer, Juan Goytisolo. First, under the themes of
authorship and dissidence, it integrates his writing across several
genres, providing a rounded assessment of his contribution to
cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and arguing that
resistance to repressive discourses characterizes his essays and
autobiographies as much as his fiction. Second, it revises the
prevailing critical interpretation of Goytisolo's fiction by
building on four premises: that his novels are less clearly
oppositional than prevailing interpretations imply; that, in order
to engage with discourses of identity, he employs an idiom
which,contrary to his own statements, is not a poststructuralist
autonomous world of words; that a textual practice grounded in the
recognizable experience of post-Civil War Spain, rather than one
which seeks out the realm of pure textuality, is essential to
Goytisolo's subversive political intentions; and that the
autobiographical element of much of his work constitutes a more
complex narrative aesthetic than has been appreciated. The book
argues that ifGoytisolo's work is interpreted as an ethical
engagement with postmodernist theory, rather than as an
illustration of it, then certain contradictions for which he has
been criticized are seen in a new and valuable light. ALISON
RIBEIRO DE MENEZES is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at University
College Dublin.
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