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

by O'Connor, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781403966780
• ISBN10: 1403966788
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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. Latin American novelists of the twentieth century tell stories about extreme male sexualities--machismo, homosexuality, fetishism, masochism, transvestism-in complex negotiations with the stories told by Freud and other sexologists, exemplifying some and queering others. O'Connor undertakes close readings of Puig, Lezama Lima, Cortaacute;zar, Fuentes, Donoso, and Sarduy in search of a perverse literary history of Latin America.

Author Biography

Patrick O'Connor is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Enter the Spider Woman: An Introduction to the Narratives of the Perverse	1	(42)
The Impenetrability and the Glory: Ellipsing Lezama Lima	43	(32)
The Moving Target of Fixated Desire: Felisberto's Paper Dolls	75	(46)
Fashionable and Unfashionable Perversions on the Latin American Rive Gauche: Cortazar and Pizarnik Read ``The Bloody Countess''	121	(34)
(Triple-) Cross-Dressing the Boom: Fuentes, Donoso, Sarduy, and the Queer Sixties	155	(38)
Conclusion/Epilogue: Perverse Narratives on the Border	193	(18)
Notes	211	(24)
Bibliography	235	(10)
Index	245