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050 00 $aPQ7298.1.R7$bA27 1996
082 00 $a863$220
100 1 $aArredondo, Inés.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84005706
240 10 $aWorks.$kSelections.$lEnglish
245 10 $aUnderground river and other stories /$cInés Arredondo ; translated by Cynthia Steele ; with a foreword by Elena Poniatowska.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axxiii, 128 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLatin American women writers
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rCynthia, Steele --$tForeword /$rElena Poniatowska --$tThe Shunammite --$tMariana --$tThe Sign --$tNew Year's Eve --$tUnderground River --$tThe Silent Words --$tOrphanhood --$tThe Nocturnal Butterflies --$tThe Brothers --$tThe Mirrors --$tOn Love --$tShadow in the Shadows.
520 $aInes Arredondo (1928-1989) published just three slim volumes of stories over twenty-three years, yet her reputation as a great writer, "a necessary writer," is firmly established in Mexico. Her works dwell on obsessions: erotic love, evil, purity, perversion, prostitution, tragic separation, and death. Most of her characters are involved in ill-fated searches for the Absolute through both excessively passionate and sadomasochistic relationships.
520 8 $aInevitably, the perfect, pure dyad of two youthful lovers is interrupted or corrupted through the interference of a third party (a rival lover or a child), aging, death, or public morality.
520 8 $aSet at the beginning of the twentieth century in the tropical northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the stories collected in Underground River and Other Stories focus on female subjectivity. Arredondo's adult male characters are often predators, depraved collectors of adolescent virgins, like the plantation owners in "The Nocturnal Butterflies" and "Shadow in the Shadows" and the dying uncle in "The Shunammite," who is kept alive by incestuous lust.
520 8 $aSince the young female protagonists rarely have fathers to protect them, the only thing standing between them and these lechers are older women. Perversely, these older women act as accomplices - along with the extended family and the Roman Catholic Church - in the sordid age-old traffic in women.
600 10 $aArredondo, Inés$vTranslations into English.
700 1 $aSteele, Cynthia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85290858
830 0 $aLatin American women writers.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90615451
852 00 $boff,glx$hPQ7298.1.R7$iA27 1996
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