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

by Jones, Anny Brooksbank; Davies, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780198715139
• ISBN10: 0198715137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-02
• Publisher: Clarendon 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. 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 inflections.

Table of Contents

Oxford Hispanic Studies	p. vii
Notes On Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Acting/Seeing Woman Griselda Gambaro's El Despojamiento	p. 10
List of Works Cited	p. 28
Literary Constructions and Gender Performance in the Novels of Norah Lange	p. 30
List of Works Cited	p. 44
The Dialogics of Testimony Autobiography as Shared Experience in Nellie Campobello's Cartucho	p. 46
List of Works Cited	p. 63
The Wandering Text Situating the Narratives of Isabel Allende	p. 66
List of Works Cited	p. 83
Topologies of Catastrophe Horror and Abjection in Diamela Eltit's Vaca Sagrada Jo Labanyi	p. 85
List of Works Cited	p. 103
Narcissus in Bloom the Desiring Subject in Modern Latin American Narrative -- María Luisa Bombal and Juan Rulfo	p. 104
List of Works Cited	p. 125
Blood and Mirrors Imagery of Violence in the Writings of Alejandra Pizarnik	p. 127
List of Works Cited	p. 147
Cristina Peri Rossi's Gender Project Rewriting Male Subjectivity and Sexuality in Solitario De Amor	p. 148
List of Works Cited	p. 161
Sonia Coutinho Revisits the City	p. 163
List of Works Cited	p. 177
Cross-Cultural Homebodies in Cuba the Poetry of Excifia Saldaña	p. 179
List of Works Cited	p. 198
Latin American Feminist Criticism Revisited	p. 201
List of Works Cited	p. 213
Response Cutting/Edge	p. 215
List of Works Cited	p. 225
Afterword: From Romance to Refractory Aesthetic	p. 226
List of Works Cited	p. 236
Index	p. 239
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