05 83499 PeterLang AG n.müller n.mueller@peterlang.com ___AddresseeEANNumber___ ___AddresseeCompanyName___ ___AddresseePersonName___ 201305130854 ger

9783034302234 03 05 83499 PeterLang AG 01 Publishers Order No 430223 02 3034302231 03 9783034302234 15 9783034302234 BC 01 Peter Lang ILAS 2 02 16621794 2 15 9783034302234 1 A01 Wendy-Jayne McMahon McMahon, Wendy-Jayne Wendy-Jayne McMahon 01 eng 261 26 2.0 1566 10 LIT004280 12 DB 20 Pentagonía - Farewell to the Sea 20 The Color of Summer, or the Garden of Earthly Delights 20 Pentagonía - The Assault 20 Pentagonía - Singing From the Well 20 The Palace of the White Skunks 23 Peter Lang 18.02.02.01 Romanistik; Hispanoamerikanische Literatur 23 Peter Lang 18.02.02.03 Romanistik; Hispanoamerikan. Kultur- und Landeskunde 06 Scholars of Latin American/Cuban literature 01 This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas’ writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition.<BR> Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas’ writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland - always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists’ identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas’ writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus. 04 Contents: Exile - Mother - Cuba - Homeland -Motherland - Marielito - <I>Pentagonía</I> - Identity. 04 08 01 http://www.peterlang.com/exportdatas/exportfiles/onix/toc/9783034302234_toc.pdf 13 Wendy-Jayne McMahon is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where she teaches and researches the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America, literature written in exile in the United States and twenty-first-century American culture. 33 08 01 http://www.peterlang.com/exportdatas/exportfiles/onix/intro/9783034302234_leseprobe01.pdf 04 03 01 http://www.peterlang.com/exportdatas/exportimages/onix/cover/9783034302234.jpg Copyright Peter Lang AG 20120330 http://www.peterlang.com/?430223 Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 01 05 80791 Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften http://www.peterlang.com Oxford GB 04 20120414 2012 01 WORLD 01 225 mm 02 150 mm 08 390 gr 27 01 Publishers Order No 430223E 03 9783035302943 15 9783035302943 DG 05 83499 PeterLang AG 01 20 01 40 GBP GB Z 01 44.4 EUR Z 01 62.95 USD US Z 02 47.5 EUR DE R 02 48.8 EUR AT R 02 58 CHF CH R