Diamela Eltit: Reading the Mother

Mary Green

doi:10.1017/9781846155338

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.

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Reading the Mother

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Dedication
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-24

1 - Language, Vision and Feminine Subjectivity in Lumpérica
pp 25-46

2 - Por la patria: Mother, Family and Nation
pp 47-72

3 - Motherhood and Gender in El cuarto mundo
pp 73-92

4 - Vaca sagrada: Violence, Abjection and the Maternal
pp 93-112

5 - Writing the Mother in Los vigilantes
pp 113-132

6 - The Myth of Motherhood in Los trabajadores de la muerte
pp 133-152

Epilogue
pp 153-156

Bibliography
pp 157-168

Index
pp 169-171

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