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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Texas Pan American series.
Texas Pan American series.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Meyer, Doris, 1942-
Language:English
Published: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1995.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Texas Pan American series.
Texas Pan American series.
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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.