UID:
almahu_9949525768202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (205 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781846154072 (ebook)
Serie:
ColeccioÌn TaÌmesis. Serie A: MonografiÌas ; 211
Inhalt:
This book assesses Goytisolo's contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and revises the prevailing critical interpretation of his fiction, arguing that his works represent an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory rather than an illustration of it. This monograph offers two new perspectives on Spanish writer, Juan Goytisolo. First, under the themes of authorship and dissidence, it integrates his writing across several genres, providing a rounded assessment of his contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and arguing that resistance to repressive discourses characterizes his essays and autobiographies as much as his fiction. Second, it revises the prevailing critical interpretation of Goytisolo's fiction by building on four premises: that his novels are less clearly oppositional than prevailing interpretations imply; that, in order to engage with discourses of identity, he employs an idiom which,contrary to his own statements, is not a poststructuralist autonomous world of words; that a textual practice grounded in the recognizable experience of post-Civil War Spain, rather than one which seeks out the realm of pure textuality, is essential to Goytisolo's subversive political intentions; and that the autobiographical element of much of his work constitutes a more complex narrative aesthetic than has been appreciated. The book argues that ifGoytisolo's work is interpreted as an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory, rather than as an illustration of it, then certain contradictions for which he has been criticized are seen in a new and valuable light. ALISON RIBEIRO DE MENEZES is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 May 2023).
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Authoring the self : Coto vedado and En los reinos de taifa -- Canonizing dissidence : four decades of essay-writing -- Memory, history, and identity : Señas de identidad and Reivindicación del conde don Julián -- Migrating south, wandering east : Juan sin tierra and Makbara -- The author as voyeur : Paisajes después de la batalla, La saga de los Marx and El sitio de los sitios -- The author as mystic : Las virtudes del pájaro solitario and La cuarentena -- The author as intertextual critic : Las semanas del jardín, Carajicomedia, and Telón de boca.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781855661097
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846154072/type/BOOK
