The Body Hispanic: Gender and Sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American Literature

ISBN-13: 9780198158745 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 232 str.

Paul Julian Smith

Opis

This is the first book to analyze Spanish and Spanish-American literature in light of several theories of sexuality advanced since Freud. Bringing into discussion such writers as Fuentes, Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Galdos, and St. Teresa of Avila, Smith draws on critical approaches derived from Marx, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and French theoretical feminism (Kristeva and Irigaray). He argues that in spite of the variety of texts and theories treated, there are three broad areas of coherence or coincidence: the status of women in a male culture; the possibility of resistance to authority; and the role of the body as protagonist in that resistance.

Recenzje

Sustained by his habitual panache and brilliance [the six chapters] constitute a series of 'strong" readings guaranteed to convince young Hispanists of the need to engage seriously with an important body of post-structuralist texts

O autorze

Smith is the author of Writing in the Margin (Clarendon Press 1988) and Representing the Other (Clarendon Press 1992). The hardback edition of The Body Hispanic was published in 1989.