Unraveling the real
Subtitle: the fantastic in Spanish-American ficciones
By: Cynthia Duncan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781439902400; 9781439902417; 9781439902424
Subjects: Spanish American fiction; Literature and society; Metaphysics in literature; History and criticism; Spanish American Fantasy fiction; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The fantastic as a literary genre; title: Modernist short stories and the fantastic; title: The fantastic as an interrogation of literary practices; title: Reclaiming history: fantastic journeys in time and space; title: Psychoanalytic readings of the fantastic; title: The fantastic and the conventions of gothic romance; title: Women writers of the fantastic; title: Cinematic encounters with the fantastic; title: Conclusion. Fantastic literature in Spanish America in the twenty-first century.