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- catalog abstract ""In Unhomely Rooms, Roberto Ignacio Diaz explores the practice of writing in English and French by Spanish American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traditionally, writers such as the Comtesse Merlin (a Cuban-French author) and W.H. Hudson (The Anglo-American best known for his ornithological works) have been excluded from the established discussion of Spanish-American literature because they wrote in a language other than Spanish. Seeking to revise the notion that "heterolingualism" should lead to literary-historical elision, Diaz underscores the ties that bind the works of these authors to the Spanish American literary canon. Through his close readings of texts by Merlin and Hudson, as well as Maria Luisa Bombal, G. Cabrera Infante and Carlos Fuentes, foreign tongues emerge as valid, if perplexing, tools of writing for Spanish Americans. Even as he exposes the cultural fragmentation of Spanish America, Diaz's critical gesture allows strangeness to become an integral part not only of individuals, as Freud argues in "The Uncanny," but also of national cultural communities."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12513118.
- catalog coverage "Latin America In literature.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In Unhomely Rooms, Roberto Ignacio Diaz explores the practice of writing in English and French by Spanish American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traditionally, writers such as the Comtesse Merlin (a Cuban-French author) and W.H. Hudson (The Anglo-American best known for his ornithological works) have been excluded from the established discussion of Spanish-American literature because they wrote in a language other than Spanish. Seeking to revise the notion that "heterolingualism" should lead to literary-historical elision, Diaz underscores the ties that bind the works of these authors to the Spanish American literary canon. Through his close readings of texts by Merlin and Hudson, as well as Maria Luisa Bombal, G. Cabrera Infante and Carlos Fuentes, foreign tongues emerge as valid, if perplexing, tools of writing for Spanish Americans. Even as he exposes the cultural fragmentation of Spanish America, Diaz's critical gesture allows strangeness to become an integral part not only of individuals, as Freud argues in "The Uncanny," but also of national cultural communities."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-238) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : The unhoused -- 1. The house of Spanish, I : Maskings of our America -- 2. The house of Spanish, II : America the unhomely -- 3. Merlin's craft : an author's ocean blues -- 4. Hudson's and Bombal's lost horizon : expectations of the unhomely reader -- 5. Babel; or, explosion in the library : our authors as literary historians -- Habitations of the unhoused : an afterword.".
- catalog extent "248 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Unhomely rooms.".
- catalog identifier "0838754899 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unhomely rooms.".
- catalog isPartOf "Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Unhomely rooms.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America In literature.".
- catalog subject "860.9/98 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Spanish American Language.".
- catalog subject "PQ7081 .D485 2002".
- catalog subject "Spanish American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : The unhoused -- 1. The house of Spanish, I : Maskings of our America -- 2. The house of Spanish, II : America the unhomely -- 3. Merlin's craft : an author's ocean blues -- 4. Hudson's and Bombal's lost horizon : expectations of the unhomely reader -- 5. Babel; or, explosion in the library : our authors as literary historians -- Habitations of the unhoused : an afterword.".
- catalog title "Unhomely rooms : foreign tongues and Spanish American literature / Roberto Ignacio Díaz.".
- catalog type "text".