Latin American fiction and the narratives of the perverse :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
paper dolls and spider women /
First Statement of Responsibility
Patrick O'Connor.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 252 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Paraphilias in literature.
Spanish American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.