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Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America : A Comparative Assessment
author
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Payne, Judith A.; Fitz, Earl E.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877454051
print isbn13
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9780877454052
ebook isbn13
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9781587291821
language
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English
subject
Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Sex role in literature, Sex differences (Psychology) in literature, Brazilian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, Brazilian fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Ambiguity in
publication date
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1993
lcc
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PQ7082.N7P37 1993eb
ddc
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863
subject
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Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Sex role in literature, Sex differences (Psychology) in literature, Brazilian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, Brazilian fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Ambiguity in
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Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America
A Comparative Assessment
Judith A. Payne and Earl E. Fitz
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1993 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Payne, Judith A. Ambiguity and gender in the new novel of Brazil and Spanish America: a comparative assessment / by Judith A. Payne and Earl E. Fitz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-405-1 1. Latin American fiction-20th century-History and criticism. 2. Sex role in literature. 3. Sex differences (Psychology) in literature. 4. Brazilian fiction-Women authors-History and criticism. 5. Brazilian fiction-20th century-History and criticism. I. Fitz, Earl E. II. Title. PQ7082.N7P37 1993 863-dc20 92-37863 CIP
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To Julianne, who knows the true value of things, and to our children, Ezra, Caitlin, Dylan, and Duncan, whose continued growth in wisdom and compassion gives one hope for a better future.
To Bernard Payne and the late Evelyn Wessel Payne, whose joint example of flourishing spirit and soul has stood for all who have been touched by them.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
Chapter One Ambiguity, Gender Borders, and the Differing Literary Traditions of Brazil and Spanish America
1
Chapter Two Jungian Theory and the New Novel of Latin America
25
Chapter Three The Border Maintained
33
Chapter Four The Border Challenged
64
Chapter Five The Border Crossed
93
Chapter Six The Mythical Hero, Transgressor of Borders
118
Chapter Seven Writers, Characters, and the Journey of the Mythical Hero
130
Chapter Eight Women and the Word
164
Conclusion
183
Notes
189
Works Consulted
209
Index
219
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the following people for their help: Carolyn Brown for her perceptive editorial comments, Karen Connelly for her generous help in the typing of our manuscript, Ruth El Saffar for her insightful comments and kind suggestions concerning chapter 2, Mary Martin for her encouragement and for making her printer available at all hours of the day and night, Rebecca Reisert for her guidance in Jungian readings, and B. Thomas Thacker for his thoughtful advice on chapter 2.
Finally, a special thank-you goes to our formal reviewers, Naomi Lindstrom and Gregory Rabassa, whose advice and support were crucial to the completion of this book.
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Introduction
In the historical development of the Brazilian and Spanish American new novel, the element of ambiguity provides a valuable clue to a much-discussed question, "Where are the women?" Before Borges and the emergence of the new narrative (for many an event marked by the appearance of his Ficciones in 1944), prose narrative throughout Spanish America had traditionally been linked with orthodox interpretations of mimesis and therefore had suffered, as Borges saw it, a number of conceptual limitations. Working under the signs of "realism" and "regionalism," writers valued established social and theoretical constructs over those of individual perception and unfettered creativity. Thus freed from the constraints of realistic narrative, the extraordinary flowering of Latin American prose fiction from the early 1960s to the early 1970sa phenomenon now widely known as the "Boom''had as its centerpiece the enshrinement of ambiguity, a growing awareness that "reality" is at least as much a fluid linguistic construct as it is a physical or sociopolitical entity to be imitated or reproduced. The Latin American new novel thus represents a realization that at any given moment "reality" is multidimensional and that language (the writer's
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