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Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay
Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Doris Meyer (Edited by)
9780292723870
Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010
256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg
Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored and is rarely studied. This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the authors look at the way women writers have interpreted the essay genre, molded it to their expression, and created an intellectual tradition of their own. Some of the writers they treat are Flora Tristan, Gertrudis GÓmez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario FerrÉ, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska. This book is the first of a two-volume project that reexamines the Latin American essay from a feminist perspective. The second volume, also edited by Doris Meyer, contains thirty-six essays in translation by twenty-two women authors.
Don’
t Interrupt Me”
: The Gender Essay as Conversation and Countercanon
Mejorar la condiciÓ
n de mi secso”
: The Essays of Rosa Guerra
Weaker Sex”
: Avellaneda and Nineteenth-Century Gender Ideology
a on Politics, Gender, and War
s Reflections at Dawn
s Womanly Soul
a Cristina Arambel GuiÑ
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Babel”
and De Francesca a Beatrice: Two Founding Essays by Victoria Ocampo
Tao Lao”
: Journalism’
s Roving Eye and Poetry’
s Confessional “
I”
rgensen. Margo Glantz, Tongue in Hand
n Vera. Sitio a Eros: The Liberated Eros of Rosario FerrÉ
n. Vision and Transgression: Some Notes on the Writing of Julieta Kirkwood