The Body Hispanic: Gender and Sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American Literature

by Ali Smith and Paul Julian Smith

Book Overview

This is the first book to analyze Spanish and Spanish-American literature in light of several theories of sexuality advanced since Freud. Bringing into discussion such writers as Fuentes, Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Galdos, and St. Teresa of Avila, Smith draws on critical approaches derived from Marx, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and French theoretical feminism (Kristeva and Irigaray). He argues that in spite of the variety of texts and theories treated, there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198158742
• ISBN13: 9780198158745
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"