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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460442203321

Autore

Holmes Amanda <1972->

Titolo

City fictions [[electronic resource] ] : language, body, and Spanish American urban space / / Amanda Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg [Pa.], : Bucknell University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8387-5865-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Disciplina

863/.609321732

Soggetti

Spanish American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Cities and towns in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de México" series -- Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cortázar's short stories -- Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica and Vaca sagrada -- The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsiváis's Los rituales del caos -- Conclusion.