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At face value: autobiographical writing in Spanish America

Sylvia Molloy c1991 © Cambridge University Press
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Series
  • Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
ISBN(s)
  • 9781139085786 (ebook)
  • 9780521022804 (paper)
  • 9780521331951 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Literature
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I THE SCENE OF READING (page 13)
    • 1 The reader with the book in his hand (page 15)
    • 2 From serf to self: the autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano (page 36)
    • 3 The theatrics of reading: body and book in Victoria Ocampo (page 55)
  • PART II CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY TALES (page 77)
    • 4 Childhood and exile: the Cuban paradise of the Countess of Merlin (page 79)
    • 5 A school for life: Miguel Cané's Juvenilia (page 97)
    • 6 The search for Utopia: Picón Salas looks forward to the past (page 108)
    • 7 A game of cutouts: Norah Lange's Cuadernos de infancia (page 126)
  • PART III MEMORY, LINEAGE AND REPRESENTATION (page 137)
    • 8 Autobiography as history: a statue for posterity (page 139)
    • 9 Shrines and labyrinths: a place to remember (page 159)
    • 10 First memories, first myths: Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo (page 186)
  • Notes (page 209)
  • Bibliography (page 256)
  • Index (page 267)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
HisR 61.4 (Autumn 1993): 596-598 http://www.jstor.org/stable/474289
MLN 108.2 (Mar. 1993): 376-381 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2904647
MLR 87.3 (Jul. 1992): 786-786 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3733031
HISP 76.2 (May 1993): 290-291 http://www.jstor.org/stable/344690
PcT 14.4 (Winter 1993): 777-778 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3301108
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