Diamela Eltit
Reading the Mother
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2007
Tamesis Books (Verlag)
978-1-85566-155-4 (ISBN)
Tamesis Books (Verlag)
978-1-85566-155-4 (ISBN)
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The textual and linguistic emphasis on the maternal body in the narrative fiction of Diamela Eltit is fundamental to understanding the critical challenge posed by her work in the Chilean context.
The Chilean author, Diamela Eltit, whose work spans the periods of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and the Transition to Democracy (1990-), is one of the most innovative and challenging writers in contemporary Latin America.This book focuses on the representation of motherhood in Eltit's first six novels and, through a chronological series of close readings, argues that the maternal body and mother-child relations are crucial for an understanding ofthe critical challenge posed by Eltit's narrative oeuvre, too frequently dismissed as 'hermetic'. An analysis of the novels' structure and language reveals how Eltit seeks to reconfigure the foundations of symbolic structures andso incorporate the mother as a subject. Although the study draws on a feminist psychoanalytic framework to explore Eltit's continuous disarticulation of key concepts that emanate from the West, specifically in relation to the formation of gender and sexuality, the work of the major Chilean cultural theorist, Nelly Richard, is also used to situate Eltit's work within the political and cultural context of Chile.
MARY GREEN lectures in Hispanic Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea.
The Chilean author, Diamela Eltit, whose work spans the periods of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and the Transition to Democracy (1990-), is one of the most innovative and challenging writers in contemporary Latin America.This book focuses on the representation of motherhood in Eltit's first six novels and, through a chronological series of close readings, argues that the maternal body and mother-child relations are crucial for an understanding ofthe critical challenge posed by Eltit's narrative oeuvre, too frequently dismissed as 'hermetic'. An analysis of the novels' structure and language reveals how Eltit seeks to reconfigure the foundations of symbolic structures andso incorporate the mother as a subject. Although the study draws on a feminist psychoanalytic framework to explore Eltit's continuous disarticulation of key concepts that emanate from the West, specifically in relation to the formation of gender and sexuality, the work of the major Chilean cultural theorist, Nelly Richard, is also used to situate Eltit's work within the political and cultural context of Chile.
MARY GREEN lectures in Hispanic Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Introduction
Language, Vision and Female Subjectivity in Lumpérica
Por la patria: Mother, Family and Nation
Motherhood and Masculinity in El cuarto mundo
Vaca sagrada: Violence, Abjection and the Maternal
Writing the Mother in Los vigilantes
The Myth of Motherhood in Los trabajadores de la muerte
Epilogue
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.11.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Monografías A |
| Verlagsort | Woodbridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85566-155-1 / 1855661551 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85566-155-4 / 9781855661554 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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