The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature

This History explores Latin American women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Ileana Rodríguez (Edited by), Mónica Szurmuk (Edited by)

9781107085329, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 November 2015

682 pages, 4 b/w illus.
23.5 x 16 x 4.3 cm, 1.08 kg

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about translation, literary genres, oral and written cultures, and the complex relationship between literature and the political sphere. Covering subjects from cronistas in Colonial Latin America and nation-building to feminicide and literature of the indigenous elite, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in contemporary scholarship. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature will not only engage readers in ongoing debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.

1. Reconstituting the archive: the indigenous ancient world Santa Arias
2. Mulieres litterarum: oral, visual, and written narratives of indigenous elite women Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
3. The establishment of feminine paradigms: translators, traitors, nuns Mónica Díaz
4. Women 'cronistas' in colonial Latin America Valeria Añón
5. Mulier docta and literary fame: the challenges of authorship in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Beatriz Colombi
6. New genres, new explorations of womanhood: travel writers, journalists, and working women Mónica Szurmuk and Claudia Torre
7. Nineteenth-century Brazilian women writers and nation-building: invisibilities, affiliations, resistances Rita Terezinha Schmidt
8. Sense and sensibility: women's experience in the nineteenth century Francine Masiello
9. The lyrical world in the nineteenth century Gwen Kirkpatrick
10. 'The damned mob of scribbling women': gendered networks in fin-de-siècle Latin America Ana Peluffo
11. Literature by women in the Spanish Antilles Catherine Davies
12. Women writers in the revolution: regional socialist realism Maricruz Castro Ricalde
13. Revolutionary insurgencies, paradigmatic cases Parvathi Kumaraswami
14. The women of the avant-gardes Vicky Unruh
15. Dissident cosmopolitanism Gabriel Giorgi and Germán Garrido
16. Boom, realismo mágico – boom and boomito María Rosa Olivera-Williams
17. Poetry-fugue: Latin American women and the lyrical move Karen Benavente
18. Mexican migrations, intercultural flows Debra A. Castillo
19. Displaced selves: exile and migration in Latin American women's writing María Inés Lagos
20. The view from here María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
21. Women writing in the Andes since colonial times Núria Villanova
22. Rebellion, revision, and renewal: Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Kanika Batra
23. Central American women's literature Nicole Caso
24. Writing violence Jean Franco
25. New/old indigenous paradigms in Maya women's literary production Arturo Arias
26. Genres of the real: testimonio, autobiography, the subjective turn Nora Strejilevich
27. Performances, memory, monuments Michael J. Lazzara
28. Mothers and children in biopolitical networks Nora Domínguez
29. Market and non-consumer narratives: from the 'levity of being' to abjection Beatriz González and Carolyn Fornoff
30. Per-verse Latin American women poets Laura M. Martins
31. New forms of writing Marcy Schwartz
32. Literature about feminicide in Ciudad Juárez Patricia Ravelo Blancas and Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba
33. Afterword: figures, texts, and moments Mary Louise Pratt.

Subject Areas: Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: general [DSB]