Light into Shadow
Subtitle: Marginality and Alienation in the Work of Elena Garro (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780820440712
Subjects: Continental European; Spanish (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Collections; Criticism and interpretation; Garro, Elena; Marginality, Social, in litera; Marginality, Social, in literature; Literature: Classics
Description: "For decades, the creative combination of myth, fantasy, history, and reality in Elena Garro's work has fascinated students and scholars of Mexican literature. This book highlights marginality, a recurrent theme running throughout Garro's work. Postmodernism, feminism, and theory on historical drama and marginality provide the means to examine how marginal characters evolve into alienated ones.

Rather than presenting a limited focus on only one genre, all of Garro's fiction - novel, short story, and theater - is examined. This in-depth coverage permits veteran Garro readers and initiates alike to enter into the entire glorious world of one of the premier writers of twentieth-century Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.