Writing the Antiportrait: Decapitations and Fragmented Identity in Roque Larraquy's La comemadre and Eduardo Rubinschik's La entereza.
This article examines the figures of decapitation in Roque Larraquy's novel La comemadre (2010) and Eduardo Rubinschik's La entereza (2017) as both a provocative aesthetic strategy and a self-reflexive political gesture. Opening an interdisciplinary dialogue between literary studies and recent theor...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic Review Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 227 - 249 |
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