Home is where the (he)art is : the family romance in late twentieth-century Mexican and Argentine theater / Sharon Magnarelli.

Author/creator Magnarelli, Sharon, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoLewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2008.
Description293 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Mexican drama--20th century. --History and criticism.
Argentine drama--20th century. --History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Women in literature.

Variant title Home is where the art is
SeriesBucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory. ^A476343
Contents Sub/in/di-verting the Oedipus syndrome in Luisa Josefina Hernández's Los huéspedes reales -- Authoring the scene, playing the role : mothers and daughters in Griselda Gambaro's La malasangre -- The family romance in Escarabajos by Hugo Argüelles : repositioning the mirror -- The family drama : ambiguous places of seduction and memory in Roberto Cossa's El saludador -- ¿Homo sapiens? by Marcela del Río : who framed the family? -- Fathering the nation in Sabina Berman's Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda -- Performing motherhood : Griselda Gambaro's De profesión maternal and Hugo Argüelles's La esfinge de las maravillas -- Of mothers, gauchos, knishes, and desire : transculturation in Eduardo Rovner's Volvió una noche -- More mothers and daughters in performance : simulacra and commodification in Diana Raznovich's Casa Matriz.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
LCCN 2007042820
ISBN9780838757079 (alk. paper)
ISBN0838757073 (alk. paper)

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