Body, Subject and Subjected : The Representation of the Body Itself, Illness, Injury, Treatment and Death in Spain and Indigenous and Hispanic American Art and Literature.
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction to the Body as Subject: The Body Itself & -- Its Functions -- 1 The Body and Indigenous Control of Environment. The Fluids of Life: Blood, Water, Power and Bugs à la Tlaxcalteca - Jeanne Gillespie -- 2 The Body and Control via Artistic Exercise. Pablo Picasso: From Physical to Mental Dissection of the Human Body - Enrique Mallen -- 3 The Female Body and Control via Transformation: The Beauty and the Beast - Debra D. Andrist -- 4 The Body and Caricature for Socio-Political Control. Aesthetically Resilient: Josep Bartolí Guiu's Political Cartoons in España Libre (1939-1977 NYC), a Spanish Civil War Exile Newspaper - María Montserrat Feu López -- Part II Introduction to the Body as Subjected: Dysfunctions, Illness and Injury -- 5 The Body Control of the Dysfunctional Body. Seeing With Eyes Shut: Representations of Blindness in Pablo Picasso - Enrique Mallén -- 6 Control of the Female Body. Threats and Violence vs. Strategies - Debra D. Andrist -- 7 Control of the "Gay" Male Body. Ravaged by Disease, AIDS in the Latin-American Literature Scenario - Jorge Chavarro (co-translated by Debra D. Andrist) -- Part III Introduction to the Body as Subjected: Prescriptions for Treatment/Cures (Medical and/or Other Interventions) -- 8 The Body Cured by Cleansing: Washing Away the Evidence: Midwives and Ritual Cleansing in Mesoamerica and Colonial New Spain - Jeanne Gillespie -- 9 The Body Cured by Plants: Where Have all the (Chocolate and Popcorn) Flowers Gone? Recovering Healing Botanicals in Nahuatl Poetry - Jeanne Gillespie -- 10 The (Spiritual) Body Cured by Alchemy: Francisco de Quevedo and His Knowledge of Alchemy - RoseMary Salum-Nemer (translated by Debra D. Andrist) -- Part IV Introduction to the Body as Subjected: Death.
11 The Body as Sacrifice for the Future: La Llorona: Death of a Boy, Birth of a Nation - Norma A. Mouton -- 12 The (Dead) Body as Catharsis in Art: Death and the Mask in Pablo Picasso - Enrique Mallen -- 13 The Transcendence of the Body: Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: Love and Death as New-World Mosaic - Lauren M. P. Derby -- Conclusions -- The Editor and Contributors -- Index.
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