Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel

著者

• McAleer, Paul R.

書誌事項

Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel

Paul R. McAleer

（Colección Támesis, serie A, Monografías ; 351）

Tamesis, 2015

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-168) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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. An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. Focusing on the correlation between changing concepts of identityand the hybrid cultural context of the late 20th-century, it examines the issues of individual and social identities expressed by these authors in their inscription and distortion of the comic genre as well as in their usage of different modes of comedy. It views the novels' comic aspects as symptoms of hybridity, which, according to many theorists, have brought about the dissolution of concepts, such as the self and society, and utopian modernity. Thesesymptoms are studied in tandem with the individual themes of the novels, such as gender, sexuality, class and global migration, as well as the 'post-national' question of Peruvian, Colombian and Mexican identity. PaulMcAleer is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Hull.

目次

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 Martin Romana 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

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB19933175
• ISBN:
  • 9781855662971
• LCCN: 2015288182
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Woodbridge
• ページ数/冊数: 171 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PQ7082.N7
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Spanish American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American fiction -- Hispanic American authors -- 20th century
  • LCSH : American fiction -- Hispanic American authors -- 21st century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA07049103