Dislocated Identities
Exile and the Self as (M)other in the Writing of Reinaldo Arenas
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2012
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-0223-4 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-0223-4 (ISBN)
This series publishes titles from any area of Iberian and Latin American Studies that explore issues relating to questions of identity. Ideas and concepts of identity can be explored at various levels, ranging from the individual to the national or international, and in different media. Proposals are welcome in the following cultural field: The history of ideas, literature, performance, cinema, art and photography, nationhood, exile, memory, and gender.
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition.
Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland - always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition.
Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland - always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.
Wendy-Jayne McMahon is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where she teaches and researches the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America, literature written in exile in the United States and twenty-first-century American culture.
Contents: Exile - Mother - Cuba - Homeland -Motherland - Marielito - Pentagonía - Identity.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.4.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity ; 2 |
| Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Francis Lough |
| Verlagsort | Bern |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 390 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | arenas • Dislocated • exile • Francis • Identities • lough • mcmahon • Other • Pentagonía - Farewell to the Sea • Pentagonía - Singing From the Well • Pentagonía - The Assault • reinaldo • self • The Color of Summer, or the Garden of Earthly Deli • The Color of Summer, or the Garden of Earthly Delights • The Palace of the White Skunks • Wendy • Writing |
| ISBN-10 | 3-0343-0223-1 / 3034302231 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-0343-0223-4 / 9783034302234 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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