Spanish American Women's Use of the Word : Colonial through Contemporary Narratives /

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"Women's participation, both formal and informal, in the creation of what we now call Spanish America is reflected in its literary legacy. Stacey Schlau examines what women from a wide spectrum of classes and races have to say about the societies in which they lived and their place in them...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schlau, Stacey, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1850-2000.
Femmes et litterature > Amerique latine.
Politique et litterature > Amerique latine.
Litterature et societe > Amerique latine.
Litterature hispano-americaine > Femmes ecrivains > Histoire et critique.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Proza.
Spaans.
Frauenliteratur
Women and literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature and society.
18.33 Spanish-American literature.
Women and literature > Latin America.
Politics and literature > Latin America.
Literature and society > Latin America.
Spanish American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Spanisch.
Chicanos.
Latin America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Wanted, dead (to the world): autobiographical narratives by colonial nun authors Gerónima Nava y Saavedra and Ursula Suárez
  • Gendered crime and punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional cases against the Ilusas Teresa de Jesús and Bárbara de Echegaray
  • En/gender/ing the racialized other, re/writing indigenist narrative: Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido and Gómez de Avellaneda's Guatimozín and "El cacique de Turmeque"
  • In search of a foremother: Silvina Bullrich and Madga Portal on Flora Tristán
  • Mothers in the Mexican and Cuban revolutions: Nellia Campobelo, Magdalena Mondragón, and Dora Alonso
  • "Quiero aportar un granito de arena": collaborative political text making by Dominga de la Cruz and Domitila Barrios Chungara
  • Making historia (history/her story): Elvira Orphee's No women's zone and Marta Traba's women's zone.

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