Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampos Works

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An exploration of Silvina Ocampos revolutionary reimagining of motherhood and childhood.

Silvina Ocampos works are currently enjoying unprecedented attention from scholars, writers, journalists, translators, and film directors. This book explores the reason for the growing interest in her work and connects it to her transgressive representations of motherhood and childhood. The unique vantage point of this book, the mother and child dyad, will appeal to readers interested in Latin American literature, women writers, gender studies, and queer theory.

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Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz is professor of Spanish at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. She is the coeditor of New Readings of Silvina Ocampo: Beyond Fantasy, the first English-language book of essays by international Ocampo scholars, with Patricia N. Klingenberg.