Mothers, Lovers, and Others: The Short Stories of Julio Cortazar,9780791459553

Mothers, Lovers, and Others: The Short Stories of Julio Cortazar

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ISBN13: 9780791459553
ISBN10: 0791459551
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Delaware.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Chronology of Cortazars Stories xi
1. Introduction: Cortazar's Female Space and the Configuration of Masculinity 1(20)
Cortazar's Psychological Obsessions: What's Mom Got to Do with It?
3(5)
It's Not Me, It's My Dream: The Unconscious and the Unraveling of Sexual Identity
8(4)
The Evolution of Female Space: A Cautious Rapprochement
12(9)
2. The Personal and Cultural Context 21(16)
Cortazar and Women, Cortazar on Women, Cortazar's Women
21(11)
Values Associated with Motherhood
32(5)
3. The Omnipotent Mother 37(18)
"La salud de los enfermos": Caring Exquisitely for Mama
41(6)
"Cartas de mama": Fantasies of Persecution
47(8)
4. Mothers and Lovers 55(38)
A Freudian Fallacy
56(1)
"Historias que me cuento": The Walter Mitty Complex
57(5)
"Deshoras": Desperately Seeking Sara
62(6)
Mother's Darling
68(13)
Love Affairs: Frustration, Betrayal, Violence
81(12)
5. Defiant Women, or Coming to Terms with Difference 93(16)
"Cambio de luces": What Does Luciana Want?
97(12)
6. "Euridice, Argentina": Women and the Guilty Expatriate 109(32)
The Family Allegory
114(12)
"El otro cielo": Dispassionate Patriotism
114(8)
"Cartas de mama": Mama in the Empty House
122(4)
"Recortes de prensa": Rage and Impotence during the Proceso
126(4)
"Diario para un cuento": Anabel/Eurydice Shows Orpheus What a Cad He Was
130(11)
7. Women and the "Dirty War" 141(30)
A War Waged on Women's Bodies
143(9)
"Pesadillas": The Anguished Patria
143(4)
"Graffiti": The Female Body-Erotic Object versus Cautionary Message
147(5)
The Politicization of Motherhood
152(35)
"Recortes de prensa": Frustrated Writers, Juxtaposed Mothers, Guilty Revenge
152(8)
"Nuevo elogio de la locura": Motherhood, Madness, and Cortazar's "zona sagrada"
160(11)
Conclusion 171(4)
Notes 175(12)
Bibliography 187(14)
Works by Cortazar
187(1)
Interviews of Cortazar
187(1)
Studies of Cortazar's Works and Life
188(9)
General Bibliography
197(4)
Index 201

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