Home is where the (he)art is
Subtitle: the family romance in late twentieth-century Mexican and Argentine theater
By: Sharon Magnarelli.
Series: The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780838757079
Subjects: Mexican drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Argentine drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Family in literature.; Women in literature.
Other titles: Home is where the art is
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
Table of contents: value: Sub/in/di-verting the Oedipus syndrome in Luisa Josefina Hernández's Los huéspedes reales; value: Authoring the scene, playing the role : mothers and daughters in Griselda Gambaro's La malasangre; value: The family romance in Escarabajos by Hugo Argüelles : repositioning the mirror; value: The family drama : ambiguous places of seduction and memory in Roberto Cossa's El saludador; value: ¿Homo sapiens? by Marcela del Río : who framed the family?; value: Fathering the nation in Sabina Berman's Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda; value: Performing motherhood : Griselda Gambaro's De profesión maternal and Hugo Argüelles's La esfinge de las maravillas; value: Of mothers, gauchos, knishes, and desire : transculturation in Eduardo Rovner's Volvió una noche; value: More mothers and daughters in performance : simulacra and commodification in Diana Raznovich's Casa Matriz.