Jackie, I’d go straight to Klein’s
Cigarettes are Sublime and his treatment of Carmen. Although it’s
not on you’ve grid, I’d also look at Svevo’s,
Confessions of Zeno Marty Roth
From: Alcohol and
Drugs History Society [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gretchen Pierce
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
3:43 PM
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Subject: novels about smoking
Hello Everyone,
This a third-hand question that was on the Latin American History
listserv. I'm hoping someone here might have some good answers.
Thanks,
Gretchen
Hi,
I'm a Victorianist English graduate student and I am very interested in
Latin America and the Caribbean during the 19th century in addition to
Last semester, I did some work with 19th century European novels that have a
racially ambiguous, prominent female who smokes or handles tobacco (or both).
I'm interested in the ways in which race (and perhaps especially
ambiguous race) is somehow linked to tobacco, and also the way race and tobacco
are linked to the commodification of these women. (In addition, these women are
usually "transgressive" women who often die at the end of the novel).
Now, I'm trying to do a similar study, but of representations of smoking women
in *Latin America* and/or the
Any suggestions for texts to look at would be greatly appreciated. I'm looking
for any of the following:
- Latin American novels (from
-a 19th century Latin American artist (or several) who portrays women and
tobacco,
- cigar/tobacco art with women
-any thing else you could suggest.
-if you could suggest any novels with women who are deeply associated with rum
or some other means of smoking (marijuana, opium), that might work, too.
I'm looking in particular for tobacco but any references to women who are
deeply associated with another "masculine" commodity might work.
Because my study has thus far dealt with racially ambiguous women, I'm
particularly interested in finding representations of mulata or mestiza women,
but I'll take anything you can think of.
Anything help/direction you could provide would be *greatly* appreciated.
Thanks so much for your time.
Best,
Jackie