Allegories of transgression and transformation : experimental fiction by women writing under dictatorship / Mary Beth Tierney-Tello.
1996
863 T564a 1996
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Title
Allegories of transgression and transformation : experimental fiction by women writing under dictatorship / Mary Beth Tierney-Tello.
ISBN
0791430359 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780791430354 (hc ; alk. paper)
0791430367 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780791430361 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780585065069
0585065063
9780791430354 (hc ; alk. paper)
0791430367 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780791430361 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780585065069
0585065063
Imprint
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Language
English
Description
x, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
863 T564a 1996
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33209551
(OCoLC)33209551
(OCoLC)33209551
Summary
"The Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s-80s (dirty wars against civilian population) coincided with the period of women's liberation. Vol. deals with incursion and participation of women in all levels of society, but especially in the literary-political sphere. Work is concerned with how women writers responded to these regimes in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay through the literature of Cristina Peri Rosi, Diamela Eltit, Nélida Piñon, and Reyna Roffé. Theoretically well grounded in feminist and political theory and extremely well written, this lucid book represents a breakthrough in women's studies and a welcome respite from the feminist canon which has overworked the texts of a small number of women writers. Recommended as a point of departure for new studies on women"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. (http://www.loc.gov/hlas)
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction. Women Writing Through and Against Dictatorship: Authority, Authorship, and the Authoritarian State. Resistance to Authorities: Politics, Gender, and Women's Writing. The Crisis of Representation: Allegorical Possibilities and the Will to Meaning
1. Defiance and Its Discontents: Nelida Pinon's A Casa da Paixao. Defying the Patriarch's Plots: Transgression as Narrative Strategy. The Patriarch's Puppet: Jeronimo and Marta's Critique of Masculinity. Marta's Script: Re-Plotting Gender and the Struggle for Authorship. "She saw her misfortune": An Allegory of Women's Writing
2. Treason and Transformation: Re-Writing the Margins in Diamela Eltit's Por la patria. Por la patria: Writing on the Dark Side. Literary Experimentalism: Por la patria's Political Erotics of Language. Textual/Sexual Transgression: Writing the Other Side of the Oedipal Drama. Re-Writing the Margins: Transgression and the Maternal Body
3. From Silence to Subjectivity: Reading and Writing in Reina Roffe's La rompiente. Subject to Censorship: Reading and Writing (in) Silence. In the Margins of Authorship: Subjectivity in Production. The Personal and the Political: Re-Embodying the Social Subject
4. Exile and a New Dream of Symmetry: Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos. The Possibilities of Exile: Loss, Otherness, and the Opportunity for Difference. From National Identity to World Citizen: Exile and the Socio-Political Context. A Dreadful Dissymmetry: Exile and the Gen(d)eric Condition. Masculine Impotence and a New Dream of Symmetry
Conclusion. Transgression and Transformation: Aesthetics, Politics and (Post- ) Authoritarian Contexts.
1. Defiance and Its Discontents: Nelida Pinon's A Casa da Paixao. Defying the Patriarch's Plots: Transgression as Narrative Strategy. The Patriarch's Puppet: Jeronimo and Marta's Critique of Masculinity. Marta's Script: Re-Plotting Gender and the Struggle for Authorship. "She saw her misfortune": An Allegory of Women's Writing
2. Treason and Transformation: Re-Writing the Margins in Diamela Eltit's Por la patria. Por la patria: Writing on the Dark Side. Literary Experimentalism: Por la patria's Political Erotics of Language. Textual/Sexual Transgression: Writing the Other Side of the Oedipal Drama. Re-Writing the Margins: Transgression and the Maternal Body
3. From Silence to Subjectivity: Reading and Writing in Reina Roffe's La rompiente. Subject to Censorship: Reading and Writing (in) Silence. In the Margins of Authorship: Subjectivity in Production. The Personal and the Political: Re-Embodying the Social Subject
4. Exile and a New Dream of Symmetry: Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos. The Possibilities of Exile: Loss, Otherness, and the Opportunity for Difference. From National Identity to World Citizen: Exile and the Socio-Political Context. A Dreadful Dissymmetry: Exile and the Gen(d)eric Condition. Masculine Impotence and a New Dream of Symmetry
Conclusion. Transgression and Transformation: Aesthetics, Politics and (Post- ) Authoritarian Contexts.
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