Sub-versions of the archive : Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's alternative identities / / Carlos Riobó

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465448603321
• Autore: Riobó Carlos <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-61148-037-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 863/.640939
• Soggetti: Archives in literature; Self in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sub-Versions Of The Archive; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Alternative Identities and Aberrant Archives; 2. Raiding the Archive: An Analysis of an Archival Tradition and Its New Configurations; 3. Manuel Puig: El "doble irrisorio" de un subgénero: Entering the Archive through Boquitas pintadas and The Buenos Aires Affair; 4. Manuel Puig: The Patriarch Betrayed: The Archive's Alternative Voices in La traición de Rita Hayworth and El beso de la mujer araña; 5. Severo Sarduy: Monstrorum Artifex: Cultural Compendia as Alternative Archives in De donde son los cantantes and Cobra; 6. Severo Sarduy: Raiding Archives and Reformulating Narrative Traditions: Maitreya and ColibríNotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Sub-versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig''s and Severo Sarduy''s Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition. This study focuses on eclectic theories of the archive, drawing from an array of sources both within and outside the Hispanic literary tradition: Borges, Foucault, Arrom, Derrida, González Echevarría, Guillory, digital media, and biotechnology.