Mothers, Lovers, and Others: The Short Stories of Julio Cortazar

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ISBN: 9780791459553 | 0791459551
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/2004

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Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Delaware.

Acknowledgments

Chronology of Cortazars Stories

1. Introduction: Cortazar's Female Space and the Configuration of Masculinity

(20)

Cortazar's Psychological Obsessions: What's Mom Got to Do with It?

(5)

It's Not Me, It's My Dream: The Unconscious and the Unraveling of Sexual Identity

(4)

The Evolution of Female Space: A Cautious Rapprochement

(9)

2. The Personal and Cultural Context

(16)

Cortazar and Women, Cortazar on Women, Cortazar's Women

(11)

Values Associated with Motherhood

(5)

3. The Omnipotent Mother

(18)

"La salud de los enfermos": Caring Exquisitely for Mama

(6)

"Cartas de mama": Fantasies of Persecution

(8)

4. Mothers and Lovers

(38)

A Freudian Fallacy

(1)

"Historias que me cuento": The Walter Mitty Complex

(5)

"Deshoras": Desperately Seeking Sara

(6)

Mother's Darling

(13)

Love Affairs: Frustration, Betrayal, Violence

(12)

5. Defiant Women, or Coming to Terms with Difference

(16)

"Cambio de luces": What Does Luciana Want?

(12)

6. "Euridice, Argentina": Women and the Guilty Expatriate

109

(32)

The Family Allegory

114

(12)

"El otro cielo": Dispassionate Patriotism

114

(8)

"Cartas de mama": Mama in the Empty House

122

(4)

"Recortes de prensa": Rage and Impotence during the Proceso

126

(4)

"Diario para un cuento": Anabel/Eurydice Shows Orpheus What a Cad He Was

130

(11)

7. Women and the "Dirty War"

141

(30)

A War Waged on Women's Bodies

143

(9)

"Pesadillas": The Anguished Patria

143

(4)

"Graffiti": The Female Body-Erotic Object versus Cautionary Message

147

(5)

The Politicization of Motherhood

152

(35)

"Recortes de prensa": Frustrated Writers, Juxtaposed Mothers, Guilty Revenge

152

(8)

"Nuevo elogio de la locura": Motherhood, Madness, and Cortazar's "zona sagrada"

160

(11)

Conclusion

171

(4)

Notes

175

(12)

Bibliography

187

(14)

Works by Cortazar

187

(1)

Interviews of Cortazar

187

(1)

Studies of Cortazar's Works and Life

188

(9)

General Bibliography

197

(4)

Index

201

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Mothers, Lovers, and Others: The Short Stories of Julio Cortazar

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