Latin American fiction and the narratives of the perverse :
[Book]
paper dolls and spider women /
Patrick O'Connor.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2004.
xiii, 252 pages :
illustrations ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
Enter the Spider Woman: An Introduction to the Narratives of the Perverse -- The Impenetrability and the Glory: Ellipsing Lezama Lima -- The Moving Target of Fixated Desire: Felisberto's Paper Dolls -- Fashionable and Unfashionable Perversions on the Latin American Rive Gauche: Cortazar and Pizarnik Read the Bloody Countess -- (Triple) Cross-Dressing the Boom: Fuentes, Donoso, Sarduy and the Queer Sixties -- Lip-Synching "Woman" -- Severo Sarduy's Flaming Creatures -- Conclusions: Perverse Narratives on the Border.
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"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. Latin American novelists of the twentieth century tell stories about extreme male sexualities - machismo, homosexuality, fetishism, masochism, transvestism - in complex negotiations with the stories told by Freud and other sexologists, exemplifying some and queering others. O'Connor undertakes close readings of Puig, Lezama Lima, Cortazar, Fuentes, Donoso, and Sarduy in search of a perverse literary history of Latin America."--Jacket.
Paraphilias in literature.
Spanish American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.