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New Readings of Silvina Ocampo: Beyond Fantasy

New Readings of Silvina Ocampo: Beyond Fantasy

Zullo-Ruiz, Fernanda
Ostrov, Andrea
Patricia Klingenberg, Patricia

Hardcover

Series: Monografías a, Book 359

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1855663082
ISBN13: 9781855663084
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Published: Sep 15 2016
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Argues for Ocampo's multifaceted development of ambiguity in various media and genres on the levels of language, plot and gender.

The critical essays in this volume are dedicated to the works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) and introduce readers more fully to a figure who has long been a kind of insider's secret among intellectuals of her country. As the title suggests, the purpose of the volume is to move beyond the codification of Ocampo's use of the supernatural, an early oversimplification of her work. The essays address the quirkiness, cruelty, violence, and overtsexuality of her works, elements which have impeded a full understanding of her creative vision. Here it becomes clear that Silvina Ocampo was a co-contributor to the literary enterprise of the Sur generation, which produced Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Victoria Ocampo, and had a profound influence on writers of the younger generation, such as Alejandra Pizarnik, Sylvia Molloy, Marjorie Agosín and others.

Patricia N. Klingenbergis Professor of Latin American literature at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz is Associate Professor of Spanish at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana.

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