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Author:

Magnarelli, Sharon, 1946-

Title:

Home is where the (he)art is : the family romance in late twentieth-century Mexican and Argentine theater / Sharon Magnarelli.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

293 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mexican drama--20th century--History and criticism.
Argentine drama--20th century--History and criticism.
Family in literature.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.

Contents:

Sub/in/di-verting the Oedipus syndrome in Luisa Josefina Hernández's Los huéspedes reales -- Authoring the scene, playing the role : mothers and daughters in Griselda Gambaro's La malasangre -- The family romance in Escarabajos by Hugo Argüelles : repositioning the mirror -- The family drama : ambiguous places of seduction and memory in Roberto Cossa's El saludador -- ¿Homo sapiens? by Marcela del Río : who framed the family? -- Fathering the nation in Sabina Berman's Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda -- Performing motherhood : Griselda Gambaro's De profesión maternal and Hugo Argüelles's La esfinge de las maravillas -- Of mothers, gauchos, knishes, and desire : transculturation in Eduardo Rovner's Volvió una noche -- More mothers and daughters in performance : simulacra and commodification in Diana Raznovich's Casa Matriz.

Series:

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

ISBN:

0838757073 (alk. paper)
9780838757079 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007042820

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)