Prospero's Daughter The Prose of Rosario Castellanos

Name: Prospero's Daughter The Prose of Rosario Castellanos
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ISBN: 9780292760417

ISBN-10: 0292760418

ISBN-13: 9780292760417

Edition: 1995

Authors: Joanna O'Connell

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A member of Mexico' privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America' most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas.O'Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos' first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 277
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Joanna O'Connell is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Prospero's Daughter



Castellanos as Resisting Reader: Sobre cultura femenina



Castellanos and Indigenismo in Mexico



Balun Canan as Palimpsest



Ciudad Real: The Pitfalls of Indigenista Consciousness



Versions of History in Oficio de tinieblas



"Buceando cada vez mas hondo...": The Dangerous Memory of Women's Lives



Public Writing, Public Reading: Rosario Castellanos as Essayist


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index