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

by Jones, Anny Brooksbank; Davies, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780198715122
• ISBN10: 0198715129
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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. Thecontributors 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, includingpsychoanalytic, post-structuralist, and Marxist approaches, with their diverse post-colonial and philosophical inflections.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	xi
INTRODUCTION	1	(9)
ANNY BROOKSBANK JONES
CATHERINE DAVIES
1. ACTING / SEEING WOMAN: GRISELDA GAMBARO'S EL DESPOJAMIENTO	10	(20)
SHARON MAGNARELLI
2. LITERARY CONSTRUCTIONS AND GENDER PERFORMANCE IN THE NOVELS OF NORAN LANGE	30	(16)
NORA DOMINGUEZ
3. THE DIALOGICS OF TESTIMONY: AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN NELLIE CAMPOBELLO'S CARTUCHO	46	(20)
DORIS MEYER
4. THE WANDERING TEXT: SITUATING THE NARRATIVES OF ISABEL ALLENDE	66	(19)
SUSAN FRENK
5. TOPOLOGIES OF CATASTROPHE: HORROR AND ABJECTION IN DIAMELA ELTIT'S VACA SAGRADA	85	(19)
JO LABANYI
6. NARCISSUS IN BLOOM: THE DESIRING SUBJECT IN MODERN LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE: MARIA LUISA BOMBAL AND JUAN RULFO	104	(23)
ADRIANA MENDEZ RODENAS
7. BLOOD AND MIRRORS: IMAGERY OF VIOLENCE IN THE WRITINGS OF ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK	127	(21)
SUSAN BASSNETT
8. CRISTINA PERI ROSSI'S GENDER PROJECT: REWRITING MALE SUBJECTIVITY AND SEXUALITY IN SOLITARIO DE AMOR	148	(15)
LINDA GOULD LEVINE
9. SONIA COUTINHO REVISITS THE CITY	163	(16)
LUIZA LOBO
10. CROSS-CULTURAL HOMEBODIES IN CUBA: THE POETRY OF EXCILIA SALDANA	179	(22)
CATHERINE DAVIES
11. LATIN AMERICAN FEMINIST CRITICISM REVISITED	201	(14)
ANNY BROOKSBANK JONES
12. RESPONSE: CUTTING / EDGE	215	(11)
DEBRA CASTILLO
AFTERWORD: FROM ROMANCE TO REFRACTORY AESTHETIC	226	(13)
JEAN FRANCO
Index	239