Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Construction: Archetype, Fairy Tale, Myth; 1 Como agua para chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989); 2 Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (1987); PART II Deconstruction: Exile and Gender; 3 La nave de los locos/The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi (1984); 4 En breve cárcel/Certificate of Absence by Sylvia Molloy (1981); PART III Reconstruction: The Female Body and Agency; 5 Arráncame la vida/Tear This Heart Out by Ángeles Mastretta (1985).
  • 6 La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoé Valdés (1995)Inconclusion: Towards Agency: From Uncharted Lives to Uncharted Futures; Index.