City fictions : language, body, and Spanish American urban space

Resource Information

The work City fictions : language, body, and Spanish American urban space represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

City fictions : language, body, and Spanish American urban space

Title remainder

language, body, and Spanish American urban space

Statement of responsibility

Amanda Holmes

Creator

• Holmes, Amanda, 1972-

Contributor

• Bucknell University Press

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Bellettrie
• Cities and towns in literature
• Cities and towns in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic book
• Spaans
• Spanish American fiction
• Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Steden

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

"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 writers: Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Christina Peri Rossi, Diamela Eltit, and Carlos Monsivais. While each of these writers is influenced at least partially by a specific Spanish American city - be it Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, or Santiago - they share ways in which they fictionalize the city. They all equate language and body with urban space. In these metaphors, language breaks down and the body disintegrates, creating a disturbing picture of violent decline. Amanda Holmes demonstrates how representation of the city through metaphors of linguistic and corporeal rupture as well as of new vital human possibilities, reflects a response to both political violence and untenable economic policies in Latin America during the last three decades of the twentieth century."--Jacket

Member of

• Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

OCLCE

Dewey number

863/.609321732

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ7082.N7

LC item number

H65 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory