Dislocated Identities

Name: Dislocated Identities
Brand: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
SKU: 9783034302234
Price: 65.8 EUR
Availability: InStock

Exile and the Self as (M)other in the Writing of Reinaldo Arenas

Автор: Wendy-Jayne McMahon

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Наличност: Външен склад

Изпращаме след 5-8 дни

65.80 € 128.69 лв

This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most imp...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Wendy-Jayne McMahon

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2012

страници

266

EAN

9783034302234

ISBN

9783034302234

Enbook ID

10021086

Издател

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Теглоt

394

Размери

150 x 226 x 19

Пълно описание

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.

Може също да ви хареса