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THE AVATAR IN PANAMA - Theses - Flinders University

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2.3 Dobles and Duplos: Latin American Perspectives . 113Second Nature: Julio Cortázar.................................................... 114Dead to the World: Enrique Anderson Imbert............................. 125A Double Trilogy: Jorge Luis Borges .......................................... 127Dolls and Dummies: Felisberto Hernández ................................ 131Brazil and Budapest: Chico Buarque.......................................... 137<strong>THE</strong> MODERN, <strong>THE</strong> POSTMODERN AND <strong>THE</strong> NEW.............. 1423.1 Shoes and Mirrors: Images of Doubling ................. 142The Shoe: Putting Your Foot in It ............................................... 143Big Shoes to Fill: Selfhood and Status ....................................... 144Footloose and Fancy Free: Sexual Identity ................................ 146When the Shoe’s on the Other’s foot: Shoes in Literature of theDouble ........................................................................................ 148Vecinos, Vigilantes y Vigilancia .................................................. 149Face to Face - The Reflected Double......................................... 162Upon Reflection: Mirror Images.................................................. 163Looking-Glass Literature and the Loss of Likeness.................... 164Death of the Double.................................................................... 169Portals and Palimpsests ............................................................. 172Vanity, Fear, and Loathing.......................................................... 1763.2 Double Whammy: Mixed Doubles............................ 181The Case for Modernism and Postmodernism ........................... 182Fictional Déjà-vu: Unity and Repetition in Enrique Jaramillo Levi’sWork ........................................................................................... 185Haven’t we met? Reappearing Characters................................. 186Siblings, Objects and Offspring .................................................. 195Where or When: Setting the Scene ............................................ 196Double-talk: Recurring Words and Phrases................................ 197Encore: Same Circumstance, Similar Scenario.......................... 199Double Vision: Iterated Images; Obstinate Objects .................... 201Recurring Concepts and Themes............................................... 203Jaramillo Levi’s Revisionist Texts ............................................... 205Textual Relations........................................................................ 210Beyond Fiction............................................................................ 211Strategies of Identity................................................................... 214Modern and Postmodern Selves ................................................ 2173.3 Reinventing the Double: The Avatar in Panama ..... 222The Old, the Borrowed and the New .......................................... 222Twice-Told Tales: Doubling and Multiplication of Texts.............. 224Literary Double-talk .................................................................... 227Metamorphosis and Mutation: A Change for the Better?............ 230Death, Demise, Disintegration and Disappearance.................... 239ii

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