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Approaches to teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman / edited by Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Balderston, Daniel, 1952-
Masiello, Francine.
Series:
Approaches to teaching world literature ; 97.
Approaches to teaching world literature ; 97
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Puig, Manuel. Beso de la mujer araña.
Puig, Manuel.
Puig, Manuel--Study and teaching.
Physical Description:
vi, 169 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Modern Language Association of America, 2007.
Contents:
Part 1 Materials / Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello
Editions and Translations 3
The Novel and the Author 3
Historical and Political Background 4
Reading the Novel 6
Readings for Students 7
Background Readings on Puig 8
Historical Context: Readings 8
Audiovisual Materials 9
A Chronological List of Puig's Novels 9
Part 2 Approaches
Overture
The Puig Effect / Ricardo Piglia 18
Narrative Structure
Reading in the Dark: Entangled Settings, Stories, and Secrets in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Lucille Kerr 28
Narrative Voices in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Rosa Perelmuter 40
Building a Web: The Construction of Meaning in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Richard Young 54
Reading and Reception
The High Stakes Adventure of Reading (in) Kiss of the Spider Woman / Juan Poblete 65
Breaking Away from the Readership Cult: The Reception History of Kiss of the Spider Woman / Maria Eugenia Mudrovcic 77
Puig's Poetics of Fusion / Jose Amicola 83
Politics and the Novel
Kiss of the Spider Woman and the Demise of the Lettered City / Juan Pablo Dabove 91
Revolution and Sexuality in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s: "May Love and Equality Reign" / Jose Maristany 101
Cinema in the Novel
The Writer as Smuggler / Graciela Speranza 110
An Impossible Love: Film and Literature in Kiss of the Spider Woman / David Oubina 122
Performing the Novel
Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Adaptations / Suzanne Jill Levine 131
A Poetics of Discomfort: Teaching Puig with Babenco / Idelber Avelar 141.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-166) and index.
ISBN:
0873528174
9780873528177
0873528182
9780873528184
OCLC:
137331512

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