Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels
Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence
Editors: Botero, Beatriz L. (Ed.)
- Examines literature from a wide range of countries including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Puerto RicoSpeaks not only to literary studies but also to gender studies and cultural studies
- Provides an important account of how and why gendered violence occurs
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- About this book
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This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican literature, it provides an important account of why gendered violence occurs and how it is portrayed. In the novels discussed, the protagonists express similar fears, passions and illnesses that are present in contemporary Latin America. Psychoanalysis and literary criticism offer us an interpretative framework to understand these voices, especially those that are in the margin. Women, particularly, as part of a globalized labor force, express through their bodies social problems that range from the erotic use of the body in a hypersexualized world, to the body as a receptacle of violence that expresses the death drive. This book is a fascinating contribution to literary, gender, and cultural studies.
- About the authors
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Beatriz L. Botero is part of the Faculty of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. She has a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a PhD in Psychoanalysis from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Liminal Females in Contemporary Latin-American Novels
Pages 1-17
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Literature as Ghost Whisperer in 2666: Narrating the Impossible
Pages 19-42
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Retelling La charca: Osario de Vivos, Women, and Con/Textual Aggressions in Puerto Rican Literature
Pages 43-60
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Gender, Space, and the Violence of the Everyday in Parque Industrial
Pages 61-77
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Mother, Nation, and Self: Poetics of Death and Subjectivity in Julián Herbert’s Canción de Tumba
Pages 79-109
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels
- Book Subtitle
- Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence
- Editors
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- Beatriz L. Botero
- Series Title
- Literatures of the Americas
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-68158-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-68158-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-68157-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88556-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 148
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