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At face value: autobiographical writing in Spanish America

Molloy, Sylvia, 1938-

Year: c1991.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I THE SCENE OF READING

1 The reader with the book in his hand

2 From serf to self: the autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano

3 The theatrics of reading: body and book in Victoria Ocampo

PART II CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY TALES

4 Childhood and exile: the Cuban paradise of the Countess of Merlin

5 A school for life: Miguel Cané's Juvenilia

6 The search for Utopia: Picón Salas looks forward to the past

7 A game of cutouts: Norah Lange's Cuadernos de infancia

PART III MEMORY, LINEAGE AND REPRESENTATION

8 Autobiography as history: a statue for posterity

9 Shrines and labyrinths: a place to remember

10 First memories, first myths: Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo

Notes

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

At face value : autobiographical writing in Spanish America / Sylvia Molloy.

Author:

Molloy, Sylvia, 1938-

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At face value : autobiographical writing in Spanish America / Sylvia Molloy.
Molloy, Sylvia, 1938-
Cambridge [U.K.]: Cambridge University Press, c1991.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07623

Subject Headings:

• Spanish American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Spanish American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Biography as a literary form
• Autobiography
• Self in literature

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