Examines literature from a wide range of countries including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Puerto RicoSpeaks not only to literary studies but also to gender studies and cultural studies
Provides an important account of how and why gendered violence occurs

Examines literature from a wide range of countries including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Puerto Rico Speaks not only to literary studies but also to gender studies and cultural studies Provides an important account of how and why gendered violence occurs

Autorentext

Beatriz L. Botero is part of the Faculty of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She has a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD in Psychoanalysis from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Liminal Females in Contemporary Latin-American Novels; Beatriz L. Botero.- 2. Literature as Ghost Whisperer in 2666 : Narrating the Impossible; Chris T. Schulenburg.- 3. Retelling La charca: Osario de Vivos , Women, and Con/Textual Aggressions in Puerto Rican Literature; Nancy Bird-Soto.- 4. Gender, Space, and the Violence of the Everyday in Parque Industrial ; Melissa Eden Gormley.- 5. Mother, Nation, and Self: Poetics of Death and Subjectivity in Julián Herbert's Canción de Tumba ; Raúl C. Verduzco.- 6. The Body in Rosario Tijeras : Between the Life and Death Drives (Eros and Thanatos); Beatriz L. Botero.- Contributors.