Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Language, Vision and Feminine Subjectivity in Lumpérica
- 2 Por la patria: Mother, Family and Nation
- 3 Motherhood and Gender in El cuarto mundo
- 4 Vaca sagrada: Violence, Abjection and the Maternal
- 5 Writing the Mother in Los vigilantes
- 6 The Myth of Motherhood in Los trabajadores de la muerte
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Language, Vision and Feminine Subjectivity in Lumpérica
- 2 Por la patria: Mother, Family and Nation
- 3 Motherhood and Gender in El cuarto mundo
- 4 Vaca sagrada: Violence, Abjection and the Maternal
- 5 Writing the Mother in Los vigilantes
- 6 The Myth of Motherhood in Los trabajadores de la muerte
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Diamela EltitReading the Mother, pp. vPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007