Home is where the (he)art is : the family romance in late twentieth-century Mexican and Argentine theater / Sharon Magnarelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magnarelli, Sharon, 1946-

Series:

Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexican drama.

Argentine drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Argentine drama.

Families in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

293 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Home is where the art is

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Sub/in/di-verting the Oedipus syndrome in Luisa Josefina Hernández's Los huéspedes reales

Authoring the scene, playing the role : mothers and daughters in Griselda Gambaro's La malasangre

The family romance in Escarabajos by Hugo Argüelles : repositioning the mirror

The family drama : ambiguous places of seduction and memory in Roberto Cossa's El saludador

¿Homo sapiens? by Marcela del Río : who framed the family?

Fathering the nation in Sabina Berman's Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda

Performing motherhood : Griselda Gambaro's De profesión maternal and Hugo Argüelles's La esfinge de las maravillas

Of mothers, gauchos, knishes, and desire : transculturation in Eduardo Rovner's Volvió una noche

More mothers and daughters in performance : simulacra and commodification in Diana Raznovich's Casa Matriz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.

ISBN:

9780838757079

0838757073

OCLC:

175218250