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Remembering Maternal Bodies
Benigno Trigo
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Description for Remembering Maternal Bodies
Paperback. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and sometimes suicidal melancholy that haunts our culture and society is the result of a terrible fantasy about the way we become ourselves. This fantasy has a matricide at its core, and this matricide will continue to have its depressing effect on us as long as it remains in place and invisible. ... Read more
Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and sometimes suicidal melancholy that haunts our culture and society is the result of a terrible fantasy about the way we become ourselves. This fantasy has a matricide at its core, and this matricide will continue to have its depressing effect on us as long as it remains in place and invisible. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349999675
SKU
V9781349999675
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About Benigno Trigo
Benigno Trigo is currently Associate Professor of literature at Vanderbilt University. His areas of expertise include literary theory, psychoanalysis, and Spanish American literature. His publications include Subjects of Crisis: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America (2000), Noir Anxiety (Co-authored with Kelly Oliver, 2003) and Foucault and Latin America: Deployments and Appropriations of Discursive Analysis (2002).
Reviews for Remembering Maternal Bodies
"Remembering Maternal Bodies provides a profound engagement with Latino and Latin American women writers. It invites the reader into a body of imaginative connections and lines of flight shared by writers generally not read in unison. Benigno Trigo significantly advances an exploration of a new corpus redefining literature and criticism in the Americas." - Roman de la Campa, Stony Brook ... Read more