Kiss of the Spider Woman | Social Concerns
Kiss of the Spider Woman is set almost entirely in a prison cell in a Latin-American country and consists of a dialogue between two cell mates, one jailed for homosexuality and the other for revolutionary activities. As might be expected, the novel has a strong sociopolitical context. The political regime is obviously repressive, something of a police state. The homosexual, Molina, has been set up by prison officials to get information from Valentin, the revolutionary. Molina is later released only to be tailed by the officials, who use some alarmingly sophisticated means of...
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