LEADER 03204nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910965669503321 005 20251117065142.0 010 $a0-8387-5865-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079384 035 $a(OCoLC)607872431 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456411 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483346 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12230031 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483346 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528365 035 $a(PQKB)11200545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3116059 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3116059 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456411 035 $a(BIP)13730473 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079384 100 $a20060808d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCity fictions $elanguage, body, and Spanish American urban space /$fAmanda Holmes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLewisburg [Pa.] $cBucknell University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 225 1 $aBucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8387-5673-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de Me?xico" series -- Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Corta?zar's short stories -- Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumpe?rica and Vaca sagrada -- The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsiva?is's Los rituales del caos -- Conclusion. 330 $aUsing concepts from urban and cultural studies, City Fictions examines the representation of the city in the works of five important late-twentieth-century Spanish American authors, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Christina Peri Rossi, Diamela Eltit, and Carlos Monsavais. While each of these authors is influenced at least partially by a specific Spanish American city, be it Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, or Santiago, the element that brings them together is the way in which the city is fictionalized in their work: they all equate both language and the body with urban space. In these metaphors, language breaks down and the body disintegrates, creating a disturbing picture of violent decline. The poetry of Paz associates the urban surroundings with dissolving sentences and desensitized, fingertips; for Cortazar, characters walking through cities are seen as both creating and unraveling written texts; 410 0$aBucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory. 606 $aSpanish American fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCities and towns in literature 615 0$aSpanish American fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCities and towns in literature. 676 $a863/.609321732 686 $a18.33$2bcl 700 $aHolmes$b Amanda$f1972-$01060565 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965669503321 996 $aCity fictions$94469887 997 $aUNINA