Dark Assemblages: Pilar Pedraza and the Gothic Story of Development - Hardcover

Pritchett, Kay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611486726 ISBN 13: 9781611486728

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In Dark Assemblages, Kay Pritchett, after surveying the novelistic production of celebrated Neo-Gothic writer Pilar Pedraza (1951-), focuses on the relevance of the Spanish author's fiction to contemporary social concerns. Pedraza's Gothic stories of development reveal the power of conventional representations (fixed images) to undermine personal growth, bringing identity into line, rather, with the objectives of oppressive social structures (dark assemblages).

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Review:

In arguing for the significance of contemporary Gothic fiction, Kay Pritchett brings to bear on the subject an apt and effective critical vocabulary enlivened by the work of two of the twentieth century's most gifted thinkers, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. True to the spirit they embodied, she brings to her own work a social commitment meriting much praise and commendation.--Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences: An International Refereed Journal

About the Author:

Kay Pritchett is professor of Spanish at the University of Arkansas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1611486726
• ISBN 13: 9781611486728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214