Gendered Self-Consciousness in Mexican and Chicana Women Writers : The Female Body As an Instrument of Political Resistance

by Roberts-camps, Traci

• ISBN13: 9780773452350
• ISBN10: 0773452354
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963): Violence, Space, and the Female Body	p. 7
Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me vera llorar (1999): Abjection, National Progress, and the Female Body	p. 55
Elena Poniatowska, La piel del cielo (2001): Sensuality and the Female Body	p. 97
Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo (2002): (In)visibility and the Female Body	p. 130
Conclusions	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 172
Index	p. 194
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