A hilarious and irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world, pushing the limits established in patriarchal postdictatorship Argentina. A rogue's gallery of cultists, poisoners, ne'er-do wells, fans of exotic dance, and not least, visitors to a disconcertingly erotic telephone booth accompany the picara in her adventures. Borinsky's lyric prose fuses the languages of popular culture, politics, proverbs, tango and cinema in a seamless continuum illuminating the dark corners and enigmas of a society that celebrates its own demise. As Luisa Valenzuela says in her Introduction: ""The reward does not consist in the suspension of disbelief. It consists in another belief that will open wide the doors for us to go out and play.
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This work follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world, pushing the limits established in patriarchal post-dictatorship Argentina. A rogue's gallery of cultists, poisoners, and fans of exotic dance accompany the picara in her adventures.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780810119543
Publisert
2002-12-30
Utgiver
Northwestern University Press; Northwestern University Press
Vekt
290 gr
Høyde
220 mm
Bredde
166 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
200

Forfatter
Introduksjon ved
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Om bidragsyterne

ALICIA BORINSKY, winner of the 1996 Latino Literature Award for Fiction, writes in both English and Spanish. Her other books published in English include the novels Mean Woman (Nebraska, 1993) and Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer (Nebraska, 1998), the poetry collections The Collapsible Couple (Middlesex, 2000) and Timorous Women (Spectacular Diseases, 1991), and a volume of literary criticism. Theoretical Fables: The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (Pennsylvania, 1993). She is currently professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature at Boston University. COLA FRANZEN is the recipient of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Prize in translation for Jorge Gullen's Horses in the Air (City Lights, 2000). She has translated Borinsky's Timorous Women (Spectacular Diseases, 1991), Mean Women (Nebraska, 1993), and Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer (Nebraska, 1998). She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.