{"product_id":"9780814252963","title":"Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010","description":"The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book \u003ci\u003eFictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010\u003c\/i\u003e traces the gender, ethnic, and racial identities that emerge in the literary figure of the Naturalist prostitute during the consolidation of modern Latin American states in the late nineteenth century. Solomon first examines how legal, medical, and philosophical thought converged in Naturalist literature of prostitution. She then traces the persistence of these styles, themes, and stereotypes about women, sex, ethnicity, and race in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature with a particular emphasis on the historical fiction of prostitution and its selective reconstruction of the past.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFictions of the Bad Life\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how at very different moments-the turn of the twentieth century, the 1920s-30s, and finally the turn of the twenty-first century-the past is rewritten to accommodate contemporary desires for historical belonging and national identity, even as these efforts inevitably re-inscribe the repressed colonial history they wish to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Thora Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030617997552,"sku":"9780814252963","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814252963_p0.jpg?v=1763739244","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814252963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}