Dislocated Identities

Wendy McMahon

ISBN 10: 3034302231 / ISBN 13: 9783034302234

Edité par Peter Lang Apr 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland - always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus. 272 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Dislocated Identities
• Éditeur: Peter Lang Apr 2012
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3034302231
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783034302234
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 225 L x 150 H x 15 P (en millimètres) 225 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 15 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 387 grammes

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This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century : Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland – always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.

À propos de l'auteur

Wendy-Jayne McMahon is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where she teaches and researches the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America, literature written in exile in the United States and twenty-first-century American culture.