{"product_id":"interventions-of-the-self-sergio-franco-9781621965565","title":"In(ter)ventions of the Self: Writing and the Autobiographical Subject in Hispanic American Literature (1974-2002)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is in the \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e headed by Rom疣 de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first to incorporate close readings and analyses of the autobiographical texts of five canonical writers (including three Nobel Prize winners): Gabriel Garc? M疵quez, Margo Glantz, Pablo Neruda, Severo Sarduy, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The study's novelty lies in its examination of a corpus that has never before been systematically studied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn(ter)ventions of the Self\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the examination of notions of subjectivity, identity, truth, verisimilitude, race, gender, ideology, image, memory, body, and eroticism as they are represented in the symbolic space of the autobiographical discourse of these authors. The text strives to capture the characteristic traits of these authors' self-representation during the period beginning with the 1974 publication of Pablo Neruda's \u003cem\u003eConfieso que he vivido\u003c\/em\u003e to 2002, when Garc? M疵quez's \u003cem\u003eVivir para contarla\u003c\/em\u003e was published. These dates correspond both to the increase in the production of autobiographical texts in Hispanic America as well as to the shift from a modern to a postmodern sensibility. This book thus examines the Hispanic American autobiographical discourse in terms of the invalidation or problematization of the great metanarratives of progress and liberation, the debilitation of the political, the emergence of marginal and marginalized subjectivities, an increased ecological consciousness, the climax of a social trend towards the visual and the spatial, as well as the vindication of intimism and the value of sensitivity and everyday socialities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be a valuable resource for literary scholars and graduate students specializing in the study of the writers examined, historians and cultural critics studying contemporary Latin America, and specialists in autobiographies and memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sergio Franco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621965562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621965565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambria Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Sergio Franco","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982331511039,"sku":"9781621965565","price":119.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99e38520-3e24-4dad-bcc3-dd3170e46d01.jpg?v=1683260541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/interventions-of-the-self-sergio-franco-9781621965565","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}