South American Independence Gender, Politics, Text

by Davies, Catherine; Owen, Hilary; Brewster, Claire

• ISBN13: 9781846310270
• ISBN10: 184631027X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-03
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

The struggle for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century was accompanied by wide-ranging debates about political rights, nationality, and citizenship.South American Independenceinvestigates the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the authors trace the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of both published and unpublished writings,South American Independencereveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.

Author Biography

Catherine Davies is professor of Hispanic and Latin American studies at the University of Nottingham. Claire Brewster is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. Hilary Owen is senior lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of plates	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
South American Independence: War, Liberty, Gender, Text	p. 3
Figuring the Feminine: The Writings of Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)	p. 33
Troped Out of History: Gender Slippage and Woman in the Poetry of Andres Bello (1781-1865)	p. 56
Competing Masculinities and Political Discourse: The Writings of Esteban Echeverria (1805-51)	p. 76
Satirised Woman and Counter-Strategies	p. 100
Women, War and Spanish American Independence	p. 131
Women, Letter-Writing and the Wars of Independence in Chile	p. 159
Gender, Patriotism and Social Capital: Josefa Acevedo and Mercedes Marin	p. 183
Gender and Revolution in Southern Brazil: Restitching the Farroupilha Revolt in the Works of Delfina Benigna da Cunha and Ana de Barandas	p. 210
Juana Manso (1819-75) Women in History	p. 241
Conclusions: South America, Gender, Politics, Text	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 302
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