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Body of writing : figuring desire in Spanish American literature

Author: René Prieto
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Focuses on the traces that an author's body leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, this title examines narratives that  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Prieto, René
Body of writing.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606265270
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: René Prieto
ISBN: 0822324512 9780822324515 0822324881 9780822324881
OCLC Number: 42597665
Description: x, 295 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: René Prieto.
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"Original, witty and passionate, Body of Writing is sure to interest Hispanists and non-Hispanists alike. I can think of few Latin Americanists capable of producing readings as energetic and elegant Read more...

 
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