Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness

Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics and the Mind

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Av Elvira Sánchez-Blake, Laura Kanost, Elvira Sanchez-Blake

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At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary Latin American realities through madness narratives by prominent women authors, including Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), Lya Luft (Brazil), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexico), Laura Restrepo (Colombia) and Irene Vilar (Puerto Rico). Close reading of these works reveals a pattern of literary techniques--a "poetics of madness"--employed by the writers to represent conditions that defy language, make sociopolitical crises tangible and register cultural perceptions of mental illness through literature.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-05-14
Mått152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt263 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor188
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786474851

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Elvira Sánchez-Blake is an associate professor of Latin American literature and culture at Michigan State University. Her publications include books, short stories, theatrical plays and poetry. She lives in Florida. Laura Kanost is an associate professor of Spanish at Kansas State University. Her studies on constructions of gender and disability in Latin American literature have appeared in various journals, including Hispanic Review and Frontiers. She is the editor of the open access journal Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. She lives in Manhattan, Kansas.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionOne.A Dialogical Journey: Cristina Peri Rossi’s La nave de los locos (Elvira Sánchez-Blake)Two.Homesickness: Lya Luft’s Exílio (Laura Kanost)Three.Dissonance on Display: Diamela Eltit and Paz Errázuriz’s El infarto del alma (Laura Kanost)Four.See the World Through My Lens: Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar (Elvira Sánchez-Blake)Five.A Poetics of Madness: Laura Restrepo’s Delirio (Elvira Sánchez-Blake)Six.Literary Agency: Irene Vilar’s Life-Writing (Laura Kanost)ConclusionsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“valuable...essential academic resource”—Hispania; “in-depth study...impressive exploration of contemporary literary representations of madness in Latin American narratives...essential”—Letras Femininas; “an important contribution to the field of Latin American literary and women’s studies. The most outstanding contribution of this book is thorough and clear review of theoretical and critical texts regarding madness...of the utmost importance.”—Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.