Fictions of the Bad Life : The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 /

Fictions of the Bad Life : The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 /

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"The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 shows the gender, ethnic, and racial identities that emerge in the literary fig...

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Main Author: Solomon, Claire (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prostitutes in literature.
Naturalism in literature.
Latin American literature.
Jews.
Human trafficking in literature.
Historical fiction, Latin American.
Litterature latino-americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Prostituees dans la litterature.
Naturalisme dans la litterature.
Jews > Argentina > History.
Historical fiction, Latin American > History and criticism.
Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Argentina.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: prostitution as a (meta)discourse
  • Part I. The metadiscursive naturalist prostitute in Latin America (1880-1930). The emergence of the legal-medical-literary prostitute in Latin America ; Living coin : literary prostitution and economic theory
  • Part II. Minority metanarratives : white slavery and the reinvention of Jewish-Argentine history (1990-2010). The neo-naturalist reinvention of Jewish Argentina in contemporary historical fiction about white slavery
  • Blanca metafiction : denarrativizing Jewish white slavery.

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