Paul R McAleer

Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781855662971
• ISBN-10: 1855662973
• Artikelnr.: 42385518

Autorenporträt

Paul R. McAleer

Inhaltsangabe

Contextualising the Debate: The European Comic Tradition and the Question
of Context Gustavo Sainz's La princesa del Palacio de Hierro: Comedy and
the Female Character in Transnational Mexico Comic Identity and Cultural
Exile in Bryce Echenique's La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña Black Comedy
and Identity Loss in Fernando Vallejo's La virgen de los sicarios: On the
Road to Dystopia Jaime Bayly's La noche es virgen: Comic Queer Identities
in the Era of Transnationalism Conclusion: Utopia, Comedy, and Latin
American Utopianism: Is This Really the End? Bibliography