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Malady and genius : self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature / Benigno Trigo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trigo, Benigno, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puerto Rican literature--History and criticism.
- Puerto Rican literature.
- Self-sacrifice in literature.
- Literature and society--Puerto Rico.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on the context of colonialism and explains the meaning of this recurring theme as a mode of survival under a colonial condition that has lasted more than five hundred years in the oldest colony in the world. Trigo engages a number of works in Latino and Puerto Rican studies that have of late reconsidered the value of a psychoanalytic approach to texts and cultural material, and also different methodologies including post-colonial theory, cultural studies, and queer studies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438461595
- 1438461593
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