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Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010
The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 traces the gender, ethnic, and racial identities that emerge in the literary figure of the Naturalist prostitute during the consolidation of modern Latin American states in the late nineteenth century. Solomon first examines how legal, medical, and philosophical thought converged in Naturalist literature of prostitution. She then traces the persistence of these styles, themes, and stereotypes about women, sex, ethnicity, and race in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature with a particular emphasis on the historical fiction of prostitution and its selective reconstruction of the past.

Fictions of the Bad Life illustrates how at very different moments-the turn of the twentieth century, the 1920s-30s, and finally the turn of the twenty-first century-the past is rewritten to accommodate contemporary desires for historical belonging and national identity, even as these efforts inevitably re-inscribe the repressed colonial history they wish to change.

Claire Thora Solomon is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College.

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Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010
The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 traces the gender, ethnic, and racial identities that emerge in the literary figure of the Naturalist prostitute during the consolidation of modern Latin American states in the late nineteenth century. Solomon first examines how legal, medical, and philosophical thought converged in Naturalist literature of prostitution. She then traces the persistence of these styles, themes, and stereotypes about women, sex, ethnicity, and race in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature with a particular emphasis on the historical fiction of prostitution and its selective reconstruction of the past.

Fictions of the Bad Life illustrates how at very different moments-the turn of the twentieth century, the 1920s-30s, and finally the turn of the twenty-first century-the past is rewritten to accommodate contemporary desires for historical belonging and national identity, even as these efforts inevitably re-inscribe the repressed colonial history they wish to change.

Claire Thora Solomon is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College.

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Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010

Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010

by Claire Thora Solomon
Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010

Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010

by Claire Thora Solomon

Overview

The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 traces the gender, ethnic, and racial identities that emerge in the literary figure of the Naturalist prostitute during the consolidation of modern Latin American states in the late nineteenth century. Solomon first examines how legal, medical, and philosophical thought converged in Naturalist literature of prostitution. She then traces the persistence of these styles, themes, and stereotypes about women, sex, ethnicity, and race in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature with a particular emphasis on the historical fiction of prostitution and its selective reconstruction of the past.

Fictions of the Bad Life illustrates how at very different moments-the turn of the twentieth century, the 1920s-30s, and finally the turn of the twenty-first century-the past is rewritten to accommodate contemporary desires for historical belonging and national identity, even as these efforts inevitably re-inscribe the repressed colonial history they wish to change.

Claire Thora Solomon is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814252963
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 06/01/2016
Edition description: 1
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author


Claire Thora Solomon is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Prostitution as a (Meta)Discourse 1

Part I The Metadiseursive Naturalist Prostitute in Latin America (1880-1980)

Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Legal-Medical-Literary Prostitute in Latin America 9

Chapter 2 Living Corn: Literary Prostitution and Economic Theory 51

Part II Minority Metanarratives: White Slavery and the Reinvention of Jewish-Argentine History (1990-3010)

Chapter 3 The Neo-Naturalist Reinvention of Jewish Argentina in Contemporary Historical Fiction about White Slavery 91

Chapter 4 Blanca Metafiction: Denarrativizing Jewish White Slavery 133

Notes 171

Bibliography 193

Index 209

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