The body Hispanic : gender and sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American literature / Paul Julian Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.Description: viii, 219 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0198158637 :
- 9780198158639
- 860.9/3538 20
- PQ6046.S49 S65 1989
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | PQ 6046 SMI 1989 | 1 | Available | 01980587421 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-216) and index.
"This is the first book to analyze Spanish and Spanish American literature in light of several theories of sexuality advanced since Freud. Discussing such writers as Fuentes, Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Galdos, and St. Teresa of Avila, Smith draws on critical approaches derived from Marx, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and French theoretical feminism (Kristeva and Irigaray). He argues that in spite of the variety of texts and theories treated, there are three broad areas of coherence or coincidence: the status of women in a male culture, the possibility of resistance to authority, and the role of the body as protagonist in that resistance."--Publisher description.
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