The Body Hispanic: Gender and Sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198158745)

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.

Author: Paul Julian Smith
ISBN-10: 0198158742
ISBN-13: 9780198158745
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/1992
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.56w x 0.60d