Melodrama and the Production of Empathy in Manuel Puig’s El Beso de la mujer araña
Manuel Puig’s 1974 novel, El Beso de la mujer araña, investigates how empathy can be incrementally learned through a melodramatic storytelling pratice and, eventually, mobilized to effect political and social change. As Molina and Valentín, the two protagonists, coinhabit the same jail cell in Bue...
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| Language: | English |
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Latin American Research Commons
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Latin American Literary Review |
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| Online Access: | https://account.lalrp.net/index.php/lasa-j-lalr/article/view/153 |