The Space Of Culture
Subtitle: Critical Readings In Hispanic Culture (Monash Romance Studies)
Contributors: Stewart King (Editor); Jeff Browitt (Editor)
Edition: 1st American Ed edition
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng; fre; spa
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780874139174
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin America; Caribbean & Latin American; 20th century; Argentine literature; Civilization, Hispanic; History and criticism; Spanish literature
Description: "A cross-section of current work in autobiographical studies, Soi-disant brings together essays on Raymond Quenean, Georges Perec, Jean Genet, Jeanne Hyvrard, Amelie Nothomb, Yves Navarre, Catherine Pozzi, Marie Bashkirtseff, and the history of Maghreb literature. It highlights the intertextual nature of autobiographical writing, the ways in which it is shaped by other texts of various genres and bears the traces of these textual intersections." "Reflecting contemporary preoccupations in autobiographical studies, the collection demonstrates that the aim has moved beyond the policing of a genre. Autobiographical practices are taken to be plural and considered as sets of discursive maneuvers. The essays are thus concerned less with defining what life-writing is than with raising questions about what it can do performatively, whether in diaries, autobiographies subtitled as such and novels read as autobiographies, or in such unlikely genres as fourteenth century travel writing in Arabic and the elaborate games of OuLiPo texts."--BOOK JACKET.