Significant violence : oppression and resistance in the narratives of Juan Goytisolo, 1970-1990 /
"Significant Violence focuses on five works by one of Spain's most important writers, Juan Goytisolo. Swinging between nihilism and utopianism, Goytisolo presents writing as incendiary, even revolutionary. Revolution is here a movement of destruction and liberation, textual, sexual, and po...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Clarendon Press,
1996
Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1996 Oxford : Oxford ; New York : 1996 Oxford : New York : 1996 |
| Series: | Oxford Hispanic studies
Oxford Hispanic studies Oxford Hispanic studies |
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| Summary: | "Significant Violence focuses on five works by one of Spain's most important writers, Juan Goytisolo. Swinging between nihilism and utopianism, Goytisolo presents writing as incendiary, even revolutionary. Revolution is here a movement of destruction and liberation, textual, sexual, and political: a movement of the word, the body, and the world. But it is also a highly problematic movement, tending to cut the word from the world, to celebrate only the masculine body, and to reinstate the very oppression that is its object of critique."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing from a range of theoretical materials, Significant Violence examines the complicated turns of Goytisolo's writing and pays special attention to such issues as the crisis of representational language; sexual politics; Western constructions of Otherness; terrorism, anarchy, violence, and the critique of ideology. It contributes to the ongoing revision of Hispanism by opening up Goytisolo's texts to discussions of gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, and nationalism; and the relations between aesthetics, ethics, politics, and criticism itself."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 513 p xii, 513 p. ; 23 cm xii, 513 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [468]-495) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [468]-495) and index Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0198158904 9780198158905 (acid-free paper) |