Title: Test tube envy : science and power in Argentine narrative /
Authors: Brown, J. Andrew, 1970-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Argentine fiction History and criticism.; Literature and science Argentina.
Abstract: "Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative examines the strategies by which Argentine narrative shapes scientific discourse and through which popular science determines narrative form over 150 years of the country's writing. Beginning with Domingo Sarmiento and Argentina's Generation of 1837 and continuing through the work of Lucio Mansilla, Eugenio Cambaceres, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato, Julio Cortazar, Ricardo Piglia, Angelica Gorodischer, Ana Maria Shua, and Mempo Giardinelli, Test Tube Envy explores the construction and exercise of social power on and through scientific expression.
Contents: Butting heads: phrenology as weapon in Facundo and Amalia -- A dandy new scientist: Lucio v. Mansilla -- Argentine naturalism's test tube anxiety -- Test tube terror: science and society in Roberto Arlt -- Borges's scientific discipline -- Cortazar's quantum values -- Test tube envy at the turn of the century : convergences and divergences.