Shattered Mirror Representations of Women in Mexican Literature

Name: Shattered Mirror Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
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ISBN: 9780292715905

ISBN-10: 0292715900

ISBN-13: 9780292715905

Edition: 1998

Authors: Marï¿½a Elena de Valdï¿½s, Marï¿½a Elena de Valdï¿½s, Maria Valdes

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Popular images of women in Mexicoconveyed through literature and, more recently, film and televisionwere long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico. Mariacute;a Elena de Valdeacute;s enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Marï¿½a Elena de Valdï¿½s is Administrative Director of the University of Toronto Literary History Project.



Preface


Introduction



The Politics of Representation of Women in Mexican Literature



Rulfo's Susana San Juan: Woman as Subject and Object of Desire



Carlos Fuentes and the Subversion of the Social Codes for Women



Juana Ines de la Cruz and Octavio Paz: The Crucible of Poetry



Questions of Female Identity: Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernandez, and Maria Luisa Puga



Identity and the Other as Myself: Elena Poniatowska



The Hard Edge: Cristina Pacheco



Poetry from the Margins: Sandra Cisneros



Like Water for Chocolate: A Celebration of the Mexican Pre-Aesthetic



Conclusion: There Must Be Another Way


Notes



Women's Education in Mexico



Other Leading Contemporary Women Writers of Mexico



Sor Juana Criticism


Works Cited


Index