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

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Main Author: Holmes, Amanda, 1972-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2007.
Series:Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.