Murder and masculinity : violent fictions of twentieth-century Latin America / Rebecca E. Biron.

Author/creator Biron, Rebecca E., 1964-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
Description181 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Murder and masculinity: an introduction -- Telling secrets of brotherly love: Jorge Luis Borges's "La intrusa" -- Fantasies of erotic domination: Armonía Somers's "El despojo" -- Crime and punishment reconsidered: Clarice Lispector's A maçā no escuro -- Genre, violence, and the mystery of masculinity: Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires affair -- Revolutionary matricide, patricide, suicide: Reinaldo Arenas's El asalto -- Murder and masculinity: an other look.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-175) and index.
LCCN 99006497
ISBN0826513425 (alk. paper)
ISBN0826513476 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ7082.N7 B48 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold