Mito personal y mitos colectivos en las novelas de Manuel Puig (Tratados de crítica literaria)

by Jorgelina Corbatta

Spanish

Paperback

Published January 1, 1988

About the author

Jorgelina Corbatta was born in Argentina. She has a licenciatura in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina; a master’s and a PhD in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh; and graduated as an academic analyst from Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She is now professor emerita of Latin American Literature and Culture at Wayne State University, where she was previously the director of Women’s Studies. She is also academic associate faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She has taught courses on contemporary narrative and film, Latin American literature and culture, women’s studies, literature and psychoanalysis at universities in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, the United States, Sweden, France, Belgium, Austria, and Spain. In 2004 she received a Research/Teaching Fulbright Award from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She has six books published and more than one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is currently writing a book on “fiction/auto-fiction and intertextuality” (in Spanish) and working on an autobiographical piece. In 2017 she received the IPA/IPSO International Psychoanalytic Award for her paper “The Quest for, and the Denial of, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s Dark Desires and the Others (IPA/Buenos Aires, July 2017). In addition, she has received several awards for teaching, directing graduate students, and conducting research.