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Shua, Ana María (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Ana María Shua was educated in the city and graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires with an MA in Liberal Arts. |
 | | Soy paciente, Shua's first novel, exposes the bureaucratic delays and entanglements and lack of concern for the individual manifested by the medical profession in Argentina, the hospital being posited as a metaphor for the state during the Proceso. |
 | | Conversely, however, Shua also examines the possible joys of motherhood, female orgasm within a heterosexual relationship and, in ironic counterpoint, female auto-eroticism, underlining the significance of the latter by associating it with a narrative technique akin to stream-of-consciousness. |
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