Diamela Eltit by Mary Green
The textual and linguistic emphasis on the maternal body in the narrative fiction of Diamela Eltit is fundamental to understanding the critical challenge posed by her work in the Chilean context. The Chilean author, Diamela Eltit, whose work spans the periods of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and the Transition to Democracy (1990-), is one of the most innovative and challenging writers in contemporary Latin America.This book focuses on the representation of motherhood in Eltit's first six novels and, through a chronological series of close readings, argues that the maternal body and mother-child relations are crucial for an understanding ofthe critical challenge posed by Eltit's narrative oeuvre, too frequently dismissed as 'hermetic'. An analysis of the novels' structure and language reveals how Eltit seeks to reconfigure the foundations of symbolic structures andso incorporate the mother as a subject. Although the study draws on a feminist psychoanalytic framework to explore Eltit's continuous disarticulation of key concepts that emanate from the West, specifically in relation to the formation of gender and sexuality, the work of the major Chilean cultural theorist, Nelly Richard, is also used to situate Eltit's work within the political and cultural context of Chile. MARY GREEN lectures in Hispanic Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Green's book is a lucid, comprehensive, and accessible study of this Chilean author, and will undoubtedly be useful to students and scholars of contemporary Chilean women's writingWith its specific focus on motherhood, it addresses some of the existing gaps in Eltit scholarship and should therefore be seen as an important contribution to our understanding of this writer and her work. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *
[An] excellent monograph. [It] is a well informed and meticulous study whose close readings open up meaningful avenues for reflection that will serve both experts and students. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *
Of great interest and great value to postgraduate students and academics. [...] Provide[s] a very useful indication of how texts, contexts, theories and perspectives can come together to illuminate new paths. * JOURNAL OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES *
[An] excellent monograph. [It] is a well informed and meticulous study whose close readings open up meaningful avenues for reflection that will serve both experts and students. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *
Of great interest and great value to postgraduate students and academics. [...] Provide[s] a very useful indication of how texts, contexts, theories and perspectives can come together to illuminate new paths. * JOURNAL OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES *
Haugen, Brenda: - Brenda Haugen started in the newspaper business and had a career as an award-winning journalist before finding her niche as an author. Since then, she has written more than 50 books and edited hundreds more, most of them for children. A graduate of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, Brenda lives in North Dakota with her dog, Alice, who chose Brenda when she went to the Humane Society thinking she was there to adopt another dog.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781855661554 |
| ISBN 10 | 1855661551 |
| Title | Diamela Eltit |
| Author | Mary Green |
| Series | MonografÃÂÂas A |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 180 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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