“La cara de luna de mi madre”: Nuria Amat’s Revolution in Poetic Language in “Casa de verano” (1999)

Nuria Amat’s 1999 short story “Casa de verano” ‘Summer House’ presents the reader with a sensorial collage of unsettling language and violent images that effectively portray domestic abuse and the difficulty of escaping oppressive environments. The Barcelona writer’s text crosses the generic boundar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Richter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2013-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol37/iss1/4