Spaces of Madness Insane Asylupb

Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Early Asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt
Chapter 2: The Asylum in the Works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares
Chapter 3: The Schizophrenic Machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum
Chapter 4: Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the Asylum
Chapter 5: Juan José Saer's Committed Detective
Chapter 6: The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine Founding Myth
Chapter 7: The Poet as Patient: The Literary Life of Jacobo Fijman
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Author

About the author

Eunice Rojas is an assistant professor of Spanish at Lynchburg College.

Summary

Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.

Product details

• Authors: Rojas, Eunice Rojas, Rojas Eunice
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9781498507912
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0791-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Literary studies: general, History of the Americas, Central America, Mexico and Central America