Murder and masculinity
Subtitle: violent fictions of twentieth-century Latin America
By: Rebecca E. Biron.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Description: This book analyses the cliché of proving virility through violence against women.  The author develops her argument through close readings of five works: Jorge Luis Borges's 'La intrusa', Armonia Somer's 'El despojo', Clarice Lispector's A maga no Escuro,Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires Affair, and Reinaldo Arenas's El asalto.
Notes: Tertiary education; Professional and scholarly.