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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552784203321

Autore

Solomon Claire

Titolo

Fictions of the Bad Life : The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 / / Claire Solomon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2014

Columbus, : Ohio State University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8142-7135-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

860.9/3552

Soggetti

Jews - Argentina - History

Naturalism in literature

Human trafficking in literature

Prostitution in literature

Latin American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

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: prostitution as a (meta)discourse -- The emergence of the legal-medical-literary prostitute in Latin America -- Living coin : literary prostitution and economic theory -- The neo-naturalist reinvention of Jewish Argentina in contemporary historical fiction about white slavery -- Blanca metafiction : denarrativizing Jewish white slavery.