City fictions language, body, and Spanish American urban space /

Main Author: Holmes, Amanda, 1972-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2007.
Series:Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10456411
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de Mβexico" series
  • Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cortβazar's short stories
  • Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos
  • Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumpβerica and Vaca sagrada
  • The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsivβais's Los rituales del caos
  • Conclusion.