Pt. 1. Materials / Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello
Editions and Translations
Historical and Political Background
Background Readings on Puig
Historical Context: Readings
Chronological List of Puig's Novels
Introduction / Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello
Puig Effect / Ricardo Piglia
Reading in the Dark: Entangled Settings, Stories, and Secrets in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Lucille Kerr
Narrative Voices in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Rosa Perelmuter
Building a Web: The Construction of Meaning in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Richard Young
High Stakes Adventure of Reading (in) Kiss of the Spider Woman / Juan Poblete
Breaking Away from the Readership Cult: The Reception History of Kiss of the Spider Woman / Maria Eugenia Mudrovcic
Puig's Poetics of Fusion / Jose Amicola
Kiss of the Spider Woman and the Demise of the Lettered City / Juan Pablo Dahove
Revolution and Sexuality in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s: "May Love and Equality Reign" / Jose Maristany
Writer as Smuggler / Graciela Speranza
Impossible Love: Film and Literature in Kiss of the Spider Woman / David Oubina
Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Adaptations / Suzanne Jill Levine
Poetics of Discomfort: Teaching Puig with Babenco / Idelber Avelar.