At face value [electronic resource] : autobiographical writing in Spanish America / Sylvia Molloy.
This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day concentrates mainly on cultural and historical issues. Spanish American autobiographies are fascinating hybrids, often wielding several discourses at once. They aspire to docum...
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Scene of Reading: 1. The reader with the book in his hand
- 2. From serf to self: the autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano
- 3. The theatrics of reading: body and book in Victoria Ocampo
- Part II. Childhood and Family Tales: 4. Childhood and exile: the Cuban paradise of the Countess of Merlin
- 5. A school for life: Miguel Cane's Juvenilia
- 6. The search for Utopia: Picn̤ Salas looks forward to the past
- 4. A game of cutouts: Norah Lange's Cuadernos de infancia
- Part III. Memory, Lineage and Representation: 8. Autobiography as history: a statue for posterity
- 9. Shrines and labyrinths: a place to remember
- 10. First memories, first myths: Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index.