Malady and Genius Self-Sacrifice in Puerto Rican Literature
-70%
Availability: In Stock

Malady and Genius Self-Sacrifice in Puerto Rican Literature

SKU: 9781438461595

Original price was: $34.95.Current price is: $10.49.

Access Malady and Genius Self-Sacrifice in Puerto Rican Literature Now. Discount up to 90%

Categories: ,

Additional information

Full Title

Malady and Genius Self-Sacrifice in Puerto Rican Literature
Author(s)

Benigno Trigo
Edition
ISBN

9781438461595, 9781438461588, 9781438461571
Publisher

Suny Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory. Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on the context of colonialism and explains the meaning of this recurring theme as a mode of survival under a colonial condition that has lasted more than five hundred years in the oldest colony in the world. Trigo engages a number of works in Latino and Puerto Rican studies that have of late reconsidered the value of a psychoanalytic approach to texts and cultural material, and also different methodologies including post-colonial theory, cultural studies, and queer studies.

Related products