1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146012603321

Titolo

Gonzaga journal of international law

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Spokane, WA, : Gonzaga School of Law, [1997]-

ISSN

1942-9193

Disciplina

340

Soggetti

International law

Droit international

Internationaal recht

Periodicals.

Internet resources.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

A practice-oriented international law journal; includes articles, essays, comments and notes from practicing attorneys, law professors, law students, business people, government officials; also includes reviews, trade information and links for the study of international law.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965669503321

Autore

Holmes Amanda <1972->

Titolo

City fictions : language, body, and Spanish American urban space / / Amanda Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-8387-5865-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Classificazione

18.33

Disciplina

863/.609321732

Soggetti

Spanish American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Cities and towns in literature

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Using concepts from urban and cultural studies, City Fictions examines the representation of the city in the works of five important late-twentieth-century Spanish American authors, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Christina Peri Rossi, Diamela Eltit, and Carlos Monsavais. While each of these authors is influenced at least partially by a specific Spanish American city, be it Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, or Santiago, the element that brings them together is the way in which the city is fictionalized in their work: they all equate both language and the body with urban space. In these metaphors, language breaks down and the body disintegrates, creating a disturbing picture of violent decline. The poetry of Paz associates the urban surroundings with dissolving sentences and desensitized, fingertips; for Cortazar, characters walking through cities are seen as both creating and unraveling written texts;