Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative
by
Eunice Rojas
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure...