The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American Fiction

by Eduardo González

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Viewing stories and novels from an ethnographic perspective, Eduardo González here explores the relationship between myth, ritual, and death in writings by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, and Roa Bastos. He then weaves this analysis into a larger cultural fabric composed of the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Benjamin, H. G. Wells, Kafka, Poe, and others. What interests González is the signature of authorial selfhood in narrative and performance,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0822312093

ISBN13:9780822312093

Release Date:March 1992

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

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