Mothers, Lovers, and Others: The Short Stories of Julio Cortázar (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) - Hardcover

Schmidt-Cruz, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791459551 ISBN 13: 9780791459553

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2003

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Book by SchmidtCruz Cynthia

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Críticas:

"No one doubts that Cortazar is one of the most important Latin American authors of the twentieth century. This book is extremely important because it is part of the new readings about Cortazar that are finally tearing to shreds the veil shrouding his fiction. The topic addresses questions central to the field of feminist criticism and shows how much can be added to our perception of literature when the tools devised by feminism are judiciously and intelligently deployed. No other book on Cortazar gives a better understanding of his female characters or of his evolving attitude toward them."

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Using feminist revisions of psychoanalytic thought and cultural studies, Mothers, Lovers, and Others examines the pervasive role of the conception of the feminine in the short stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (1914-1984). Contending that his obsession with the mother is the source of Cortázar's uneasiness with femininity, Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz traces an evolution in his relationship to female space, from a convoluted and defensive posture to a more open and tolerant stance, paralleling his increasing political commitment. Schmidt-Cruz explores the role of gender in Cortázar's quest to reconcile his divided allegiance to Argentina and France, and his denunciation of the atrocities of the Argentine military dictatorship.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0791459551
• ISBN 13: 9780791459553
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 209