The Iliac crest
Rivera Garza, Cristina (, 1964-)
The Iliac crest / Cristina Rivera Garza ; afterword by Elena Poniatowska - New York City : The Feminist Press at City University of New York , 2017 - 136 p. ; 21 cm.
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9781558614352
Identity (Psychology)----Fiction
Women----Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
Psychological fiction
LAS FIC RIV
The Iliac crest / Cristina Rivera Garza ; afterword by Elena Poniatowska - New York City : The Feminist Press at City University of New York , 2017 - 136 p. ; 21 cm.
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9781558614352
Identity (Psychology)----Fiction
Women----Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
Psychological fiction
LAS FIC RIV
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