Murder and masculinity : violent fictions of twentieth century Latin America / [electronic resource]
Biron, Rebecca E.,1964-
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press,
2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-175) and index.
Murder and masculinity: an introduction -- Telling secrets of brotherly love: Jorge Luis Borges's "La intrusa" -- Fantasies of erotic domination: Armonía Somers's "El despojo" -- Crime and punishment reconsidered: Clarice Lispector's A maça no escuro -- Genre, violence, and the mystery of masculinity: Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires affair -- Revolution as matricide, patricide, suicide: Reinaldo Arenas's El asalto -- Murder and masculinity: another look -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Latin American fiction
Politics and literature
Violence in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Latin American fiction
Politics and literature
Violence in literature
Masculinity in literature
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
Spanish Literature