Approaches to Teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman

Preface to the Series vii PART ONE: MATERIALS Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello Editions and Translations 3 The Novel and the Author 3 Historical and Political Background 4 Reading the Novel 6 Readings for Students 7 Background Readings on Puig 8 Historical Context: Readings 8 Audiovisual Materials 9 A Chronological List of Puig's Novels 9 PART TWO: APPROACHES Introduction 13 Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello Overture The Puig Effect 18 Ricardo Piglia Narrative Structure Heading in the Dark: Entangled Settings, Stories, and Secrets in Kiss of the Spider Woman 28 Lucille Kerr Narrative Voices in Kiss of the Spider Woman 40 Rosa Perelmuter Building a Web: The Construction of Meaning in Kiss of the Spider Woman 54 Richard Young Reading and Reception The High Stakes Adventure of Reading (in) Kiss of the Spider Woman 65 Juan Poblete Breaking- Away from the Readership Cult: The Reception History of Kiss of the Spider Woman 77 Maria Eugenia Mudrovcic Puig's Poetics of Fusion 83 Jos micola Politics and the Novel Kiss of the Spider Woman and the Demise of the Lettered City 91 Juan Pablo Dabove Revolution and Sexuality in Argentina in the 1960's and 1970's: "May Love and Equality Reign" 101 Jos aristany Cinema in the Novel The Writer as Smuggler 110 Graciela Speranza An Impossible Love: Film and Literature in Kiss of the Spider Woman 122 David Oubi a Performing the Novel Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Adaptations 131 Suzanne Jill Levine A Poetics of Discomfort: Teaching Ping with Babenco 141 Idelber Avelar Notes on Contributors 151 Survey Participants 155 Works Cited 157 Index 167