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The Iliac crest / Cristina Rivera Garza ; afterword by Elena Poniatowska

By:

Rivera Garza, Cristina, (, 1964-)

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York City : The Feminist Press at City University of New York , 2017Description: 136 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781558614352

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Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction

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LAS FIC RIV

Summary: 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.

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Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC RIV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021603

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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.

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