Rosario's Fugitive Voice: Deciphering Rosario Tijeras' s Ironic Challenge to the Notion of Literatura Sicaresca.
This essay examines the use of irony in Jorge Franco Ramos's Rosario Tijeras in relationship to recent literary criticism. Frequently, the novel appears in this criticism as a realist narrative of a beautiful, working-class killer told from the perspective of her unrequited lover. In contrast, I arg...
| Publicado en: | Symposium Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 237 - 253 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Winter2011
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