Distant Relation: Time and Identity in Spanish American Fiction 9780773564213

In The Distant Relation Eoin Thomson presents innovative readings of canonical philosophic and literary texts, focusing

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Distant Relation: Time and Identity in Spanish American Fiction
9780773564213

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Eoin S. Thomson

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Towards a New Philosophy of Relation
SECTION 1 BEING TOO GREAT FOR WORDS
Otherness and the Ineffable
Before Me, I Turned Aside: Opacity
Transcendence and Extimacy: The Extimate Relation
Exposure: A Flash for the Night
SECTION 2 INTERLUDE
Los pasos perdidos: Absence and Writing
The Duplicity of Fiction
Fiction's Absent Source
Duplicity and Absence in El acoso
SECTION 3 RETURN TO OPACITY
Foreignness as an Emblem of Opacity
The Strangers of La hojarasca
Ventriloquism: Voicing and Speech in El otoño del patriarca
SECTION 4 THE TIME OF THE BETWEEN
The Persistence of the Past
Revolt and Resurrection in El laberinto de la soledad
The Place over the Embers
Dead Silent: Pedro Páramo
SECTION 5 POSTPONEMENT: IN LIEU OF AN ENDING
Simultaneity, Language, History
Bibliography
Index
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