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    Durham :Duke University Press,
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    almafu_9959712408402883
    Format: 1 online resource (308 p.)
    ISBN: 9780822380726
    Content: Body of Writing focuses on the traces that an author’s “body” leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, René Prieto examines narratives that reflect—in differing yet ultimately complementary ways—the imprint of the author’s body, thereby disclosing insights about power, aggression, transgression, and eroticism.Healthy, invalid, lustful, and confined bodies—as portrayed by Julio Cortázar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel García Márquez, Severo Sarduy, Rosario Castellanos, and Tununa Mercado—become evidence for Roland Barthes’s contention that works of fiction are “anagrams of the body.” Claiming that an author’s intentions can be uncovered by analyzing “the topography of a text,” Prieto pays particular attention not to the actions or plots of these writers’ fiction but rather to their settings and characterizations. In the belief that bodily traces left on the page reveal the motivating force behind a writer’s creative act, he explores such fictional themes as camouflage, deterioration, defilement, entrapment, and subordination. Along the way, Prieto reaches unexpected conclusions regarding topics that include the relationship of the female body to power, male and female transgressive impulses, and the connection between aggression, the idealization of women, and anal eroticism in men.This study of how authors’ longings and fears become embodied in literature will interest students and scholars of literary and psychoanalytic criticism, gender studies, and twentieth-century and Latin American literature.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1 Julio Cortázar’s perpetual exile -- , 2 More than meets the I: Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s -- , 3 The excremental vision of Gabriel García Márquez -- , 4 The degraded body in the work of Severo Sarduy -- , 5 Rewriting the body: renewal through language in the work of Rosario Castellanos -- , 6 The body of pleasure in Tununa Mercado’s -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.
    Language: English
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