Format:
Online Ressource
ISBN:
9781438461595
,
1438461593
Series Statement:
SUNY series, insinuations: philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
Content:
Introduction: Scenes of self-undoing : malady and genius of the Puerto Rican soul -- Psyche, history, language, and body in Antigona Pérez by Luis Rafael Sánchez -- The gift of abjection : the look of love in René́ Marqués -- Vicissitudes of perversion : from "El puertorriqueño dócil" to El capitán de los dormidos -- Zona. Carga y descarga : minor literature in a penal colony -- Colonial sublimations of a noir eros in "El josco" and two detective novels -- Shame, repetition, and forgiveness in queer Latino Testimonio : impossible motherhood and Diario de una puta humilde -- Conclusion: The scene of self-sacrifice in literary discourse : between perversion and sublimation.
Content:
Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on the context of colonialism and explains the meaning of this recurring theme as a mode of survival under a colonial condition that has lasted more than five hundred years in the oldest colony in the world. Trigo engages a number of works in Latino and Puerto Rican studies that have of late reconsidered the value of a psychoanalytic approach to texts and cultural material, and also different methodologies including post-colonial theory, cultural studies, and queer studies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1438461577
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1438461593
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438461571
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438461595
Additional Edition:
Print version Trigo, Benigno Malady and genius Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Language:
English
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