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Dislocated Identities

Exile and the Self as (M)other in the Writing of Reinaldo Arenas

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-0343-0223-4 / 978-3034302234 / 9783034302234

Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2012

Seiten: 266

Auflage: 1

Zielgruppe: Scholars of Latin American/Cuban literature

Reihe herausgegeben von Francis Lough
Autor(en): Wendy-Jayne McMahon, Wendy McMahon

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