City fictions [electronic resource] : language, body, and Spanish American urban space / Amanda Holmes.
By: Holmes, Amanda.
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BookSeries: Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory: Publisher: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2007Description: 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Cities and towns in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 863/.609321732 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de M�exico" series -- Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cort�azar's short stories -- Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lump�erica and Vaca sagrada -- The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsiv�ais's Los rituales del caos -- Conclusion.
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