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Murder and Masculinity
- 181 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 2000
- 2 editions
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1 About this book
This book analyses the cliché of proving virility through violence against women. The author develops her argument through close readings of five works: Jorge Luis Borges's 'La intrusa', Armonia Somer's 'El despojo', Clarice Lispector's A maga no Escuro,Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires Affair, and Reinaldo Arenas's El asalto.
- Politics and literature
- Masculinity
- Violence
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