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Cristina Peri Rossi
Afternoon of the Dinosaur, by Cristina Peri Rossi, one of the most important Spanish writers of our time, was first published in 1976. Due to censorship in Spain under Franco…
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Hoy, cuando los medios de comunicacion han convertido la historia individual y colectiva en espectaculo, la literatura es el espacio privilegiado de la subjetividad.
Este libro se asoma al fascinante…
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Mary Boufis Filou
Confronting Patriarchy: Psychoanalytic Theory in the Prose of Cristina Peri Rossi examines three works of the contemporary Uruguayan author who lives in exile as she dialogues with the psychoanalytic discourse…
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In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting…
Sex and power are dominant themes in this innovative novel by a major femisnist writer, an exile from Uruguay now living in Spain.
Natasha Tanna
How do queer texts engage traditional perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire through three authors based in Barcelona, a key locus…
How do queer texts engage traditional perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? How do readers and writers connect with their predecessors? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire…
Christina Peri Rossi
This collection, written upon Peri Rossi’s exile from Uruguay in 1972, was so personal that it remained unpublished for almost thirty years. Accompanied here by two brilliant essays on exile…
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Claire Lindsay
The end of the twentieth century witnessed a boom in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women’s writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers is…
An experimental, erotic novel by a renowned Latin American fiction writer and political activist.
Explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. This is the author’s fourth book to be translated into English-the others are The Ship of Fools , A…
Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed and personal voices in Hispanic letters. This volume of short stories, first published in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay, presages the atrocities…
In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged space of subjectivity. This book allows us to…
