Sylvia Molloy. Acto de presencia. La escritura autobiográfica en Hispanoamérica

Abstract

The reader with the book in his hand -- From serf to self: the autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano -- The theatrics of reading: body and book in Victoria Ocampo -- Childhood and exile: the Cuban paradise of the Countess of Merlin -- A school for life: Miguel Cane's Juvenilia -- The search for Utopia: Picon Salas looks forward to the past -- A game of cutouts: Norah Lange's Cuadernos de infancia -- Autobiography as history: a statue for posterity -- Shrines and labyrinths: a place to remember -- First memories, first myths: Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo.