Spaces of madness
Subtitle: insane asylums in Argentine narrative
By: Eunice Rojas
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780739190869
Subjects: Argentine literature; History and criticism; Asylums; Mentally ill in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt; title: The asylum in the works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares; title: The schizophrenic machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum; title: Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the asylum; title: Juan José Saer's Committed detective; title: The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine founding myth; title: The poet as patient: the literary life of Jacobo Fijman.