Diamela Eltit - Reading the Mother

Alternative short blurb: Focusing on the representation of motherhood in the first six novels of Diamela Eltit, the author, through a chronological series of close readings, argues that the maternal body and mother-child relations are crucial for an understanding of the critical challenge posed by Eltits narrative oeuvre. Although the study draws on a feminist psychoanalytic framework to explore Eltits continuous disarticulation of key concepts that emanate from the West, specifically in relation to the formation of gender and sexuality, the work of the major Chilean cultural theorist, Nelly Richard, is also used to situate Eltits work within the political and cultural context of Chile.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Green
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Series: Coleccion Tamesis Serie A: Mon
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies