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Spaces of Madness

Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative
  • ISBN-13: 9781498507912
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Eunice Rojas
  • Price: AUD $111.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/10/2016
  • Format: Paperback 226 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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Spaces of Madness examines the role of madness and irrationality in the works of four key Argentine novelists: Julio Cortazar, Ricardo Piglia, Juan Jose Saer, and Luisa Valenzuela. Situating these works within the deconstructivist framework provided by Michel Foucault's History of Madness, Spaces of Madness demonstrates the ways in which the perceived superiority of reason to madness is called into question in light of the challenges posed by the atrocities of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83). The works of the authors studied in Spaces of Madness reflect at times a wave of glorification of the irrational as a consequence of a growing distrust of rationalism, and often use the concept of madness as a metaphorical representation of an artistic type of irrationality as a means of resistance against supposedly rational forces of violence and repression. The works of the four authors studied here seek to dislodge reason, sanity and rationality from their pedestal by proposing madness as a metaphor for the often artistic efforts of resistance against the violent and repressive consequences of purported rationality taken to irrational extremes.
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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