Reflections/refractions

Reflections/Refractions is the first book-length study of the fiction of Argentine Luisa Valenzuela, noted author of the post Boom in Latin American literature. A compendium of critical essays, the collection examines the full range of Valenzuela's literary production to date. Magnarelli's post structuralist approach centers on what she deems the principal thematic and stylistic issues in Valenzuela's prose - discourse, power, gender, and politics - as she reveals the complex interrelationships among them and how each is semiotically informed by the others.