García Lorca/Almodóvar: Gender, Nationality, and the Limits of the Visible (Inaugural Lecture Delivered 28th January 1993)

by Paul Julian Smith

The questions of gender, nationality, and sexuality are all inextricably intertwined not only in foreign depictions of Spain as a place of blood and passion, of implicitly presocial and unconscious drives, but also in Hispanic accounts of the nation as motherland. In this lecture, Professor Smith focuses on two texts, La casa de Bernarda Alba by Spain's greatest twentieth-century dramatist, Garc?a Lorca, and Entre tinieblas by Pedro Almod?var, its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521497752
• ISBN13: 9780521497756
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 29 Pages
• Weight: 0.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 4.7" x 7.2"