The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American FictionDuke University Press, 1992 - 275 páginas 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, which he finds willfully and temptingly disfigured in the works he examines: horrific and erotic, subservient and tyrannical, charismatic and repellent. Searching out the personal image and plot, González uncovers two fundamental types of narrative: one that strips character of moral choice; and another in which characters' choices deprive them of personal autonomy and hold them in ritual bondage to a group. Thus The Monstered Self becomes a study of the conflict between individual autonomy and the stereotypes of solidarity. Written in a characteristically allusive, elliptical style, and drawing on psychoanalysis, religion, mythology, and comparative literature, The Monstered Self is in itself a remarkable performance, one that will engage readers in anthropology, psychology, and cultural history as well as those specifically interested in Latin American narrative. |
Índice
Part Two Pastoral and Dark Romance | 97 |
Bestiario Final | 119 |
Part Three The Confessional Self | 163 |
The Pardoner and the Host | 206 |
A Foundling Father | 245 |
261 | |
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The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American ... Eduardo González Visualização integral - 1992 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Aconitum Adrogué Aesop archaic archetypes armas secretas Asunción aura becomes Benjamin Bestiario bezoar biographic birth body Bonpland Borges Borges's brother Cefalea character Chaves child classic Coriolanus Cortázar cult Dahlmann death deixis elements essay fantástico fantasy father female fiction figure film Final del juego Finnegans Wake flâneur Francia Gaspar gender Griffin Guaraní hablador Hijo de hombre implies incest individual inside invisible involved Isabel Itapé Itapúa Jabbok killed kinship Las armas secretas Leticia Macario Machiguenga magic mancuspias María memory migraine moon mother mourning myth mythic narrative narrator Nene Nene's notion novel ontology pain pantheism Paraguay Paraguay's parthenogenesis passage Patiño performance phosphenes Pilar play plot poison rape reader reading reference Rema represents resemble ritual Roa Bastos Roa Bastos's role sacred Saúl Saúl's scene Schneils seems sense Silvia sister skull sort specular story storyteller Supreme Supreme's symbolic taboo tion uncanny unique voice Whitman woman words writing
Referências a este livro
Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges Daniel Balderston Pré-visualização limitada - 1993 |
Inequality and Difference in Hispanic and Latin American Cultures Bernard McGuirk,Mark Millington Visualização de excertos - 1995 |