Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse: Paper Dolls and Spider Women

by Patrick O'Connor and Patrick J. O'Connor

Book Overview

Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom. O'Connor's main argument is that orthodox criticism of Latin American literature has neglected the eccentric singularities of other fictive trends in the corpus (especially in the second half of the twentieth-century). At the same time, by examining these eccentric singularities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349529788
• ISBN13: 9781349529780
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"