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DISLOCATED IDENTITIES
EXILE AND THE SELF AS (M)OTHER IN THE WRITING OF REINALDO ARENAS |
| By: |
Wendy-Jayne McMahon |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3035302944 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783035302943 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN |
| Pub. date: |
14 April, 2012 |
| Edition: |
250th ed. |
| Series: |
Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity 2 |
| Description: |
Dislocated Identities |
| Synopsis: |
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland - always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus. |
| Publication: |
Switzerland |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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