Latin American fiction and the narratives of the perverse : paper dolls and spider women / Patrick O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Patrick, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Paraphilias in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

"Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse" contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American Boom and post-Boom. Latin American novelists of the twentieth century tell stories about extreme male sexualities--machismo, homosexuality, fetishism, masochism, transvestism-in complex negotiations with the stories told by Freud and other sexologists, exemplifying some and queering others. O'Connor undertakes close readings of Puig, Lezama Lima, Cortá zar, Fuentes, Donoso, and Sarduy in search of a perverse literary history of Latin America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-244) and index.

ISBN:

1403966788

OCLC:

55286682