Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century Spanish Literature - Literary Criticism, Gay & Lesbian Literary Studies, General & Miscellaneous Spanish Literature - Literary Criticism, Femininity

Fear and Gendering

Name: Fear and Gendering
Author: Ryan Prout
ISBN: 9780820441962

by Ryan Prout

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"Fear and Gendering addresses the interaction of phobia, gender, and reproduction in a representative cross-section of work by the iconoclastic contemporary Spanish novelist, Juan Goytisolo. This book asks how fear - of effeminacy and of childishness - works as an organizing principle in the evolution of Goytisolo's prose. The nexus of fear, desire, and reproduction is examined in Reivindicacion del Conde don Julian (1970), Makbara (1980), La cuarentena (1991), and Cuaderno de Sarajevo (1993). Through a reading of Goytisolo's Juvenilia, the study adopts an interrogative approach to the novelist's account of discrete adult and puerile identities. Informed by a lively attention to recent work in the field of cultural studies, Fear and Gendering looks afresh at some of Goytisolo's best and lesser known works."--BOOK JACKET.

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Prout looks at the ways fear (of effeminacy and of childishness) has worked as an organizing principle in the prose of Spanish novelist and journalist Juan Goytisolo. Prout looks both at the author's best-known works and at less familiar ones, including juvenilia, concluding that "if Goytisolo is a great writer, he is also a great child, a great sissy, in short, and above all, a great person." His final chapter addresses the integration and reappraisal of themes central to Goytisolo's persona as he wrote about living through the siege of Sarajevo. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)