Reinterpreting the Spanish American essay : women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries / edited by Doris Meyer.
"Reading these essayists is essential for gaining an understanding of Latin American literature and culture. Work focuses on feminine perspective, and in doing so, proposes a reinterpretation of the history of the genre. Includes analyses of better-known women writers: Clorinda Matto de Turner, Gabr...
Uniform Title: | Texas Pan American series.
Texas Pan American series. |
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Language: | English |
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Austin, Tex. :
University of Texas Press,
1995.
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Texas Pan American series.
Texas Pan American series. |
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MSU: License agreement restricts access to one user at a time. |
Physical Description: | vi, 246 pages ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 'Don't interrupt me': the gender essay as conversation and countercanon / Mary Louise Pratt
- Pariah/messiah: the conflictive social identity of Flora Tristan / Jill S. Kunnheim
- Slavery in the Spanish colonies: the racial politics of the countess of Merlin / Clair Emilie Martin
- 'Mejorar la condición de mi secso': the essays of Rosa Guerra / Nancy Saporta Sternbach
- Shoring up the 'weaker sex': Avellaneda and nineteenth-century gender ideology / Nina M. Scott
- Lost in translation: Eduarda Mansilla de García on politics, gender, and war / Francine Rose Masiello
- Writing for her life: the essays of Clorinda Matto de Turner / Mary G. Berg
- The Self-constructing heroine: Amanda Labarca's reflections at dawn / Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval
- Reciprocal reflections: specular discourse and the self-authorizing venture / Doris Meyer
- Teresa de la Parra: America's womanly soul / Richard Rosa and Doris Sommer
- 'Babel' and De Francesca a Beatrice: two founding essays by Victoria Ocampo / María Cristina Arambel Guiñazú
- Alfonsina Storni as 'Tao Lao': journalism's roving eye and poetry's confessional 'I' / Gwen Kirkpatrick
- Magda Portal, vanguard critic / Melvin S. Arrington
- Yolanda Oreamuno: the art of passionate engagement / Janet N. Gold
- The Ambivalence of power: self-disparagement in the newspaper editorials of Rosario Castellanos / Martha Lafollette Miller
- Carmen Naranjo and Costa Rican culture / Ardis L. Nelson
- Margo Glantz, tongue in hand / Beth E. Jörgensen
- Sitio a eros: the liberated eros of Rosario Ferré / Elena Gascón Vera
- Vision and transgression: some notes on the writing of Julieta Kirkwood / Marjorie Agosín
- Cristina Peri Rossi and the erotic imagination / Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal
- Woman watching women, watching / Irene Matthews.