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Spaces of Madness

Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative
  • ISBN-13: 9780739190869
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Eunice Rojas
  • Price: AUD $244.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2015
  • Format: Hardback 230 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure of the asylum in Argentine literature has evolved along with the institution itself. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podesta, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan Jose Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Early Asylums: Manuel Podesta, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt Chapter 2: The Asylum in the Works of Julio Cortazar and Adolfo Bioy Casares Chapter 3: The Schizophrenic Machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum Chapter 4: Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the Asylum Chapter 5: Juan Jose Saer's Committed Detective Chapter 6: The Asylum as Juan Jose Saer's Argentine Founding Myth Chapter 7: The Poet as Patient: The Literary Life of Jacobo Fijman Conclusion Works Cited About the Author
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