Approaches to teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman

Pt. 1. Materials / Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello

Editions and Translations

Novel and the Author

Historical and Political Background

Reading the Novel

Readings for Students

Background Readings on Puig

Historical Context: Readings

Audiovisual Materials

Chronological List of Puig's Novels

Pt. 2. Approaches

Introduction / Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello

Overture

Puig Effect / Ricardo Piglia

Narrative Structure

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

Reading and Reception

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

Politics and the Novel

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

Cinema in the Novel

Writer as Smuggler / Graciela Speranza

Impossible Love: Film and Literature in Kiss of the Spider Woman / David Oubina

Performing the Novel

Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Adaptations / Suzanne Jill Levine

Poetics of Discomfort: Teaching Puig with Babenco / Idelber Avelar.