TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,Amanda TI - City Fictions: Language, Body, and Spanish American Urban Space SN - 9780838758656 AV - PQ7082.N7 -- H65 2007eb U1 - 863/.609321732 PY - 2007/// CY - Lewisburg PB - Bucknell University Press KW - Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism KW - Cities and towns in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 By Fire, Water, or Stone: The Destruction of Imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de Mexico" Series -- 2 Aesthetics, Politics, and the Urban in Julio Cortazar's Short Stories -- 3 Uncanny Dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- 4 Scripting the City: Diamela Eltit's Lumperica and Vaca sagrada -- 5 The Spectacle as Metaphor: Urban Disorder in Carlos Monsivais's Los rituales del caos -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3116059 ER -