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Sub-versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition. This study focuses on eclectic theories of the archive, drawing from an array of sources both within and outside the Hispanic literary tradition: Borges, Foucault, Arrom, Derrida, Gonzáaacute;lez Echevarríiacute;a, Guillory, digital media, and biotechnology.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Alternative Identities and Aberrant Archives Chapter 2. Raiding the Archive: An Analysis of an Archival Tradition and Its New Configurations Chapter 3. Manuel Puig: El "doble irrisorio de un subgénero: Entering the Archive through Boquitas pintadas and The Buenos Aires Affair Chapter 4. Manuel Puig: The Patriarch Betrayed: The Archive's Alternative Voices in La traición de Rita Hayworth and El beso de la mujer araña Chapter 5. Severo Sarduy:Monstrorum Artifex: Cultural Compendia as Alternative Archives in De donde son los cantantes and Cobra Chapter 6. Severo Sarduy: Raiding Archives and Reformulating Narrative Traditions:Maitreya andColibrí
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By Carlos Riobó
