Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Botero, Beatriz L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Literatures of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin American literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican literature, it provides an important account of why gendered violence occurs and how...