Latin American Women's Writing Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis

Name: Latin American Women's Writing Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis
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ISBN: 9780198715139

ISBN-10: 0198715137

ISBN-13: 9780198715139

Edition: 1996

Authors: Anny Brooksbank Jones, Catherine Davies

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This collection of essays on Latin American women's writing--written by the leading feminist critics in Latin America, the United States, and Europe--rethinks notions of gender and cultural identity and examines the specific discursive practices of a range of female-authored texts. The contributors offer fresh readings of canonical authors, such as Maria Luisa Bombal and Rosario Castellanos, and present essays on emerging Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina writers. The collection represents the most influential strands in current feminist criticism on Latin America, including psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, and Marxist approaches, with their diverse post-colonial and philosophical…

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List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/2/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Oxford Hispanic Studies


Notes On Contributors


Introduction



Acting/Seeing Woman Griselda Gambaro's El Despojamiento


List of Works Cited



Literary Constructions and Gender Performance in the Novels of Norah Lange


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The Dialogics of Testimony Autobiography as Shared Experience in Nellie Campobello's Cartucho


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The Wandering Text Situating the Narratives of Isabel Allende


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Topologies of Catastrophe Horror and Abjection in Diamela Eltit's Vaca Sagrada Jo Labanyi


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Narcissus in Bloom the Desiring Subject in Modern Latin American Narrative -- Marï¿½a Luisa Bombal and Juan Rulfo


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Blood and Mirrors Imagery of Violence in the Writings of Alejandra Pizarnik


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Cristina Peri Rossi's Gender Project Rewriting Male Subjectivity and Sexuality in Solitario De Amor


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Sonia Coutinho Revisits the City


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Cross-Cultural Homebodies in Cuba the Poetry of Excifia Saldaï¿½a


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Latin American Feminist Criticism Revisited


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Response Cutting/Edge


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Afterword: From Romance to Refractory Aesthetic


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Index