Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo.

List of contents

Contextualising the Debate: The European Comic Tradition and the Question of Context
Gustavo Sainz's La princesa del Palacio de Hierro: Comedy and the Female Character in Transnational Mexico
Comic Identity and Cultural Exile in Bryce Echenique's La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña
Black Comedy and Identity Loss in Fernando Vallejo's La virgen de los sicarios: On the Road to Dystopia
Jaime Bayly's La noche es virgen: Comic Queer Identities in the Era of Transnationalism
Conclusion: Utopia, Comedy, and Latin American Utopianism: Is This Really the End?
Bibliography

About the author

Paul R. McAleer

Product details

• Authors: Paul R McAleer, Paul R. McAleer
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9781855662971
• ISBN: 978-1-85566-297-1
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias; Monografías a; Monografias A; Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias; Monografías a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American