Sites of disquiet : the non-space in Spanish American short narratives and their cinematic transformations / Ilka Kressner.
Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Such a space is neither a site of projection (as ut...
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| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;
v. 58. |
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| Genre/Form: | Anthologies |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Spotting the non-space
- Into spatial vagueness: Jorge Luis Borges's and Miguel Picazo's Hombre de la esquina Rosada
- The power of staging: spaces of emulation in Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del heroe" and Bernardo Bertolucci's Strategia del ragno
- Screening the void: Julio Cortazar's "cartas de mama" and Manuel Antin's and Miguel Picazo's filmic translations
- Echoes in the dark: Pedro Paramo on the page and on the screen
- Toward amor vacui: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's and Ruy Guerra's erendiras
- Epilogue: The non-space revisited.