Manuel Puig’s Boquitas Pintadas: an experimental novel - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.16506

Authors

  • Wanderlan da Silva Alves Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.16506

Keywords:

Spanish-American narrative, literary experimentalism, narrative procedures, mass media, hybridization

Abstract

The writing procedures that give an experimental configuration to the novel Boquitas pintadas by the Argentinean writer Manuel Puig are analyzed. The narrative associates a structural opening and a critical consciousness in its literary elaboration. Puig develops a narrative perspective marked by formal hybridization that maintains a dialogue with symbolic products and codes from mass culture without quitting critic work and aesthetic consciousness.

 

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Author Biography

  • Wanderlan da Silva Alves, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB)
    Mestre em Letras (Teoria da Literatura) pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP/São José do Rio Preto). Atualmente é doutorando em Letras (Teoria da Literatura) na mesma instituição. Professor de Literatura Espanhola e Hispanoamericana na Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campus VI.

Published

2013-05-14

Issue

Section

Literature

How to Cite

Manuel Puig’s Boquitas Pintadas: an experimental novel - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.16506. (2013). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 35(3), 221-231. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.16506

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