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The first book in English on canonical Spanish American writer Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1936), Pariah in the Desert examines his works through the theoretical lens of the heroic and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This focus on reveals the ethical coherence galvanizing the extraordinary range of Quiroga's work and its engagement with multiples discourses of his time: gender conflict, immigration politics, neocolonial economics, foreign popular culture and film, scientific debate, and pedagogical innovation.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Heroic Paradigm: Tradition and Innovation of the Pariah-Hero
Chapter 2: Strangers on the Land: Immigrants, Neocolonialism and Monstrous Heroism
Chapter 3: The Hollywood Invasion: Silent Film as a Portal to the Heroic Living Dead
Chapter 4: Men and Women: Bourgeois Convention, the Female Abject and Heroic Gender Conflict
Chapter 5: Inventive Nature: Science, Medicine, Technology and the Monstrous Post-Darwin Hero
Chapter 6: Concluding with Pedagogy: Father and Teacher as Abject Hero
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
By Todd S. Garth
