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Diamela Eltit - Reading the Mother (Hardcover)
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Diamela Eltit - Reading the Mother (Hardcover)
Series: Monografias A
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The Chilean author, Diamela Eltit, whose work spans the periods of
the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and the Transition to
Democracy (1990-), is one of the most innovative and challenging
writers in contemporary Latin America. This book focuses on the
representation of motherhood in Eltit's first six novels and,
through a chronological series of close readings, argues that the
maternal body and mother-child relations are crucial for an
understanding of the critical challenge posed by Eltit's narrative
oeuvre, too frequently dismissed as 'hermetic'. An analysis of the
novels' structure and language reveals how Eltit seeks to
reconfigure the foundations of symbolic structures and so
incorporate the mother as a subject. Although the study draws on a
feminist psychoanalytic framework to explore Eltit's continuous
disarticulation of key concepts that emanate from the West,
specifically in relation to the formation of gender and sexuality,
the work of the major Chilean cultural theorist, Nelly Richard, is
also used to situate Eltit's work within the political and cultural
context of Chile. MARY GREEN lectures in Hispanic Studies at the
University of Wales, Swansea. Alternative short blurb: Focusing on
the representation of motherhood in the first six novels of Diamela
Eltit, the author, through a chronological series of close
readings, argues that the maternal body and mother-child relations
are crucial for an understanding of the critical challenge posed by
Eltit's narrative oeuvre. Although the study draws on a feminist
psychoanalytic framework to explore Eltit's continuous
disarticulation of key concepts that emanate from the West,
specifically in relation to the formation of genderand sexuality,
the work of the major Chilean cultural theorist, Nelly Richard, is
also used to situate Eltit's work within the political and cultural
context of Chile.
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