Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse - Paper Dolls and Spider Women (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)

Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom. O'Connor's main argument is that orthodox criticism of Latin American literature has neglected the eccentric singularities of other fictive trends in the corpus (especially in the second half of the twentieth-century). At the same time, by examining these eccentric singularities in their relationship to mainstream trends in the Latin American corpus, O'Connor forces his readers to view these master narratives and major trends (such as modernismo or magical realism) from surprisingly new angles. Five of the authors discussed (Puig, Lezama, Lima, Cortazar and Sarduy) have an established place in the Latin American literary canon. A fifth one, Rosario Ferre, may have come close to achieving that status with her earlier fictions. Others (Felisberto Hernandez, Alicia Borinsky, Cristina Peri Rossi and Silvia Molloy) are less well known, but they are certainly highly significant authors for scholars and students of contemporary Latin American fiction.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2005
First published:	2004
Authors:	P. O'Connor
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-52978-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	1-349-52978-8
Barcode:	9781349529780

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