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Occupied Bodies And Political Space: Argentina's Abortion Enigma, Molly E Jacobs-Meyer May 2014

Occupied Bodies And Political Space: Argentina's Abortion Enigma, Molly E Jacobs-Meyer

Molly E Jacobs-Meyer

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Mass Media, “Realismo Villero” And “El Sueño Argentino”: The Return To Literature In Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’S La Virgen Cabeza (2009), Stephen Buttes Oct 2013

Mass Media, “Realismo Villero” And “El Sueño Argentino”: The Return To Literature In Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’S La Virgen Cabeza (2009), Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This paper begins by developing the concept of "de-fictionalization," which the Argentine author Roberto Arlt develops in his newspaper columns about the Paraná Delta region of Argentina. Bringing this concept to bear on Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's recent novel La virgen cabeza, which narrates the story of contemporary Delta residents living in a villa miseria or shantytown near San Isidro, I suggest that the notion of de-fictionalization is crucial to the primary critical reception of the novel, which has highlighted an interest in biopolitics. These biopolitical approaches tend to foreground what they understand as the novel's postmodernist techniques such as pastiche, …

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El Álbum De Señoritas Y La Emancipación De La Mujer, Irene Jacobsen Dec 2007

El Álbum De Señoritas Y La Emancipación De La Mujer, Irene Jacobsen

Irene Jacobsen

This article describes the circumstances of the publication of Álbum de Señoritas (Buenos

Aires, 1854), a journal for women written by Juana Manso, an early defender of women’s

rights. It analizes its content, its reception among the female audience to whom it was addressed,

and proposes possible reasons for its commercial failure. The author concludes that the Álbum

represents a key moment in the literary and social histories of Argentina.