Murder and masculinity
Subtitle: violent fictions of twentieth century Latin America
By: Rebecca E. Biron.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Latin America; Violence in literature; Masculinity in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: Murder and masculinity; title: Telling secrets of brotherly love : Jorge Luis Borges's "La intrusa"; title: Fantasies of erotic domination : Armonía Somers's "El despojo"; title: Crime and punishment reconsidered : Clarice Lispector's A maçã no escuro; title: Genre, violence, and the mystery of masculinity : Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires affair; title: Revolutionary matricide, patricide, suicide : Reinaldo Arenas's El asalto; title: Murder and masculinity : an other look.