Killer Books Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative

Name: Killer Books Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative
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ISBN: 9780292728394

ISBN-10: 0292728395

ISBN-13: 9780292728394

Edition: 2002

Authors: Anï¿½bal Gonzï¿½lez

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Through examining selected short stories and novels, this study traces and describes how Spanish American writers have reflected ethically in their works about writing's relation to violence and about their own relation to writing.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

ANï¿½BAL GONZï¿½LEZ is Professor of Modern Latin American Literature at Yale University and is the author of five books of criticism. He also serves on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals, including Latin American Literary Review. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Killer Books: Writers, Writing, and Ethics in Spanish America



Abuses



Writing and Child Abuse in Manuel Gutierrez Najera's "La hija del aire"



Silvina's Fall: Manuel Zeno Gandia's Epicurean Ethics of Writing in La charca



Ifigenia's Choice: Teresa de la Parra's Demonic Option



Admonitions



From Fission to Fiction: Ethical Chain Reactions in Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths"



Ethics and Theatricality in Alejo Carpentier's The Harp and the Shadow



Shared Guilt: Writing as Crime in Julio Cortazar's "Press Clippings"


Notes


Bibliography


Index