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The Body Hispanic: Gender and Sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American...
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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780198158745
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Body Hispanic : Gender and Sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American Literature
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Subjects & Themes / Women, European / Spanish & Portuguese, American / Hispanic American
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Series
- Clarendon Paperbacks Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 230 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198158742
ISBN-13
9780198158745
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64920
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
230 Pages
Publication Name
Body Hispanic : Gender and Sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American Literature
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Women, European / Spanish & Portuguese, American / Hispanic American
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Clarendon Paperbacks Ser.
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
'Smith does a very good job of conveying the theoretical material lucidly. The generally excellent calibre of the scholarship is, in turn, what makes one want to struggle with the various theories of gender and sexuality which Smith himself at times describes as 'dense and intricate'. Thegreat diversity of The Body Hispanic assures something of interest to experts in almost all fields of Hispanic studies, and each essay rewards the reader with observations that are fresh and perceptive.'C.S. Halka, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Volume LXIX: Number 3: July 1992, 'without doubt the most radical, ground-breaking work on Hispanic literature published in the last decade (at least), and has Qhanged irrevocably the horizon of expectations of that discipline as a result ... The insights that The Body Hispanic provokes ... are, indeed, radical andfar-reaching.'Stephen M. Hart, University of Kentucky, Romance Quarterly, Spring 1993, Vol. 40, No.2', 'Sustained by his habitual panache and brilliance [the six chapters] constitute a series of 'strong' readings guaranteed to convince young Hispanists of the need to engage seriously with an important body of post-structuralist texts'Malcolm K. Reed, Journal of Hispanic Philology, 'Sustained by his habitual panache and brilliance [the six chapters] constitute a series of 'strong' readings guaranteed to convince young Hispanists of the need to engage seriously with an important body of post-structuralist texts'Malcolm K. Reed, Journal of Hispanic Philology'The Body Hispanic is an example of the most astute criticism ... It is refreshing to read a book about bodies that doesn't try to answer what women want, but rather addresses Cixous's contention that "men still have everything to say about their sexuality"'SIGLO XX/20TH CENTURY (1991-92)'Smith does a very good job of conveying the theoretical material lucidly. The generally excellent calibre of the scholarship is, in turn, what makes one want to struggle with the various theories of gender and sexuality which Smith himself at times describes as 'dense and intricate'. The great diversity of The Body Hispanic assures something of interest to experts in almost all fields of Hispanic studies, and each essay rewards the reader withobservations that are fresh and perceptive.'C.S. Halka, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Volume LXIX: Number 3: July 1992'without doubt the most radical, ground-breaking work on Hispanic literature published in the last decade (at least), and has Qhanged irrevocably the horizon of expectations of that discipline as a result ... The insights that The Body Hispanic provokes ... are, indeed, radical and far-reaching.'Stephen M. Hart, University of Kentucky, Romance Quarterly, Spring 1993, Vol. 40, No.2''erudite book ... it has brought in an important aspect of getting down to fundamentals and regarded texts with something much more engaging than antiquarianism'Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LV, 1993, 'erudite book ... it has brought in an important aspect of getting down to fundamentals and regarded texts with something much more engaging than antiquarianism'Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LV, 1993, "Without doubt the most radical, ground-breaking work on Hispanic literature published in the last decade (at least), and has changed irrevocably the horizon of expectations of that discipline as a result. It not only diverged from the prevailing ideology of Hispanism in Britain...but actively attacked it....These readings are unsurpassed in their clarity and intelligence and, at times, sheer virtuosity."-- Romance Quarterly, "Without doubt the most radical, ground-breaking work on Hispanic literature published in the last decade (at least), and has changed irrevocably the horizon of expectations of that discipline as a result. It not only diverged from the prevailing ideology of Hispanism in Britain...but actively attacked it....These readings are unsurpassed in their clarity and intelligence and, at times, sheer virtuosity."--Romance Quarterly, 'The Body Hispanic is an example of the most astute criticism ... It is refreshing to read a book about bodies that doesn't try to answer what women want, but rather addresses Cixous's contention that "men still have everything to say about their sexuality"'SIGLO XX/20TH CENTURY (1991-92)
Illustrated
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Dewey Decimal
860.9/3538
Synopsis
This is the first book to analyze Spanish and Spanish-American literature in light of several theories of sexuality advanced since Freud. Bringing into discussion such writers as Fuentes, Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Galdos, and St. Teresa of Avila, Smith draws on critical approaches derived from Marx, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and French theoretical feminism (Kristeva and Irigaray). He argues that in spite of the variety of texts and theories treated, there are three broad areas of coherence or coincidence: the status of women in a male culture; the possibility of resistance to authority; and the role of the body as protagonist in that resistance., This ground-breaking study provides a readable introduction to the varied and complex treatments of sexuality since Freud, and reads, in this context, a representative selection of major texts from different areas of Hispanic studies - Renaissance, modern peninsular, and Spanish American., This is the first book to analyse Spanish and Spanish American literature in the light of modern theories of sexuality. Its aim is twofold: to provide a readable introduction to the varied and complex treatments of sexuality since Freud; and to read, in this context, a representative selection of major texts from different areas of Hispanic studies - Renaissance, modern peninsular, and Spanish American. The writers discussed include Fuentes, Neruda, Lorca, and Galdós.
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