The Body Hispanic Gender and Sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American Literature
by Smith, Paul JulianEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1992-05-07
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary
This is the first book to analyze Spanish and Spanish-American literature in light of several theories of sexuality advanced since Freud. Bringing into discussion such writers as Fuentes, Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Galdos, and St. Teresa of Avila, Smith draws on critical approaches derived from Marx, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and French theoretical feminism (Kristeva and Irigaray). He argues that in spite of the variety of texts and theories treated, there are three broad areas of coherence or coincidence: the status of women in a male culture; the possibility of resistance to authority; and the role of the body as protagonist in that resistance.
Author Biography
Paul Julian Smith is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge
Table of Contents
| Covarrubias's bearded lady | |
| Abbreviations | p. ix |
| Introduction: Reading The Body | p. 1 |
| Writing Women In The Golden Age | p. 11 |
| Women's Studies and Feminist Theory | p. 11 |
| Teresa and the Mystic Body | p. 22 |
| Zayas and Women's Language | p. 31 |
| A Chance of Life | p. 41 |
| Gongora And Barthes | p. 44 |
| 'Beyond' Transgression | p. 44 |
| The Soledades: Gender and Genre | p. 51 |
| The Polifemo: Narrative and Catachresis | p. 60 |
| Figures of Sexuality | p. 67 |
| Galdos, Valera, Lacan | p. 69 |
| Psychologism and Psychoanalysis | p. 69 |
| La de Bringas: The Factor of Truth | p. 75 |
| Juanita la Larga: The Insistence of Meaning | p. 87 |
| A Letter of Love | p. 101 |
| Lorca And Foucault | p. 105 |
| Against Humanism | p. 105 |
| Bernarda Alba: Power and Knowledge | p. 115 |
| El publico: Power and Pleasure | p. 125 |
| A Sense of Self | p. 135 |
| Neruda, Vallejo, Marx | p. 138 |
| Marxian Sexuality | p. 138 |
| Nature in the Odas elementales | p. 143 |
| Man in the Poemas humanos | p. 156 |
| A Politics of the Body | p. 172 |
| Fuentes, Puig, Lyotard | p. 175 |
| Postmodern Conditions | p. 175 |
| Artemio Cruz and the Decline of Metanarrative | p. 183 |
| La mujer arana and the Return of the Body | p. 193 |
| The End of History? | p. 202 |
| Conclusion: Reading The Same | p. 205 |
| Bibliography | p. 208 |
| Index | p. 216 |
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