Trigo, Benigno, <br/><br/>
Malady and genius :  self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature / 
Benigno Trigo. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - SUNY series, insinuations: philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature .
 - SUNY series, insinuations. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Scenes of self-undoing : malady and genius of the Puerto Rican soul -- Psyche, history, language, and body in Antigona P�erez by Luis Rafael S�anchez -- The gift of abjection : the look of love in Ren��e Marqu�es -- Vicissitudes of perversion : from "El puertorrique�no d�ocil" to El capit�an de los dormidos -- Zona. Carga y descarga : minor literature in a penal colony -- Colonial sublimations of a noir eros in "El josco" and two detective novels -- Shame, repetition, and forgiveness in queer Latino Testimonio : impossible motherhood and Diario de una puta humilde -- Conclusion: The scene of self-sacrifice in literary discourse : between perversion and sublimation. 
<br/><br/> Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on the context of colonialism and explains the meaning of this recurring theme as a mode of survival under a colonial condition that has lasted more than five hundred years in the oldest colony in the world. Trigo engages a number of works in Latino and Puerto Rican studies that have of late reconsidered the value of a psychoanalytic approach to texts and cultural material, and also different methodologies including post-colonial theory, cultural studies, and queer studies. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438461595 1438461593 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40026274859 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Puerto Rican literature--History and criticism.<br/>Self-sacrifice in literature.<br/>Literature and society--Puerto Rico.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--European--Spanish & Portuguese.<br/>Literature and society.<br/>Puerto Rican literature.<br/>Self-sacrifice in literature.<br/>Kolonialismus<br/>Literatur<br/>Selbstaufopferung
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Puerto Rico.<br/>Puerto Rico
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ7422  / .T75 2016eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>860.9/97295