03204nam 2200589 a 450 991096566950332120251117065142.00-8387-5865-7(CKB)2670000000079384(OCoLC)607872431(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456411(SSID)ssj0000483346(PQKBManifestationID)12230031(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483346(PQKBWorkID)10528365(PQKB)11200545(MiAaPQ)EBC3116059(Au-PeEL)EBL3116059(CaPaEBR)ebr10456411(BIP)13730473(EXLCZ)99267000000007938420060808d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCity fictions language, body, and Spanish American urban space /Amanda Holmes1st ed.Lewisburg [Pa.] Bucknell University Pressc20071 online resource (212 p.) Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theoryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8387-5673-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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;Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.Spanish American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCities and towns in literatureSpanish American fictionHistory and criticism.Cities and towns in literature.863/.60932173218.33bclHolmes Amanda1972-1060565MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965669503321City fictions4469887UNINA