Border writing : the multidimensional text / D. Emily Hicks ; foreword by Neil Larsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, D. Emily

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 80.

Theory and history of literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Boundaries in literature.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Comparative literature--Themes, motives.

Comparative literature.

Minorities in literature.

Grensgebieden.

Letterkunde.

Vervreemding.

Alienation (Social psychology).

Boundaries.

Literature.

Minorities.

Local Subjects:

Grensgebieden.

Letterkunde.

Vervreemding.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxi, 140 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1991]

Summary:

Annotation Examines Latin American literature from the perspective of attempts to break through national, genre, domain, and other borders in order to perceive, or create, a whole culture. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Contents:

García Márquez: cultural border crosser

Beyond the subject: from the territorialized to the deterritorialized text

Cortázar: the task of the translator

That which resists: the code of the real in Luisa Valenzuela's Como en la guerra

Vlalenzuela: the imaginary body

Contemporary border writing and reading: from Aztlán to Nicaragua.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-136) and index.

ISBN:

0816619824

9780816619825

0816619832

9780816619832

OCLC:

22766353