Diamela Eltit: Reading the Mother

by Mary Green

The textual and linguistic emphasis on the maternal body in the narrative fiction of Diamela Eltit is fundamental to understanding the critical challenge posed by her work in the Chilean context.

The Chilean author, Diamela Eltit, whose work spans the periods of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and the Transition to Democracy (1990-), is one of the most innovative and challenging writers in contemporary Latin America.This book focuses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855661551
• ISBN13: 9781855661554
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 6.0"