Overview: Examines literature from a wide range of countries including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Puerto Rico.Speaks not only to literary studies but also to gender studies and cultural studies.ProvideThis book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican literature, it provides an important account of why gendered violence occurs and how it is portrayed. In the novels discussed, the protagonists express similar fears, passion
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