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Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781134614974
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender and the Self in Latin American LiteratureDDC classification:
  • 863/.6099287098
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081.5 .S736 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Construction: Archetype, Fairy Tale, Myth -- 1 Como agua para chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate (1989) -- 2 Eva Luna (1987) -- PART II: Deconstruction: Exile and Gender -- 3 La nave de los locos/The Ship of Fools (1984) -- 4 En breve cárcel/Certificate of Absence (1981) -- PART III: Reconstruction: The Female Body and Agency -- 5 Arráncame la vida/Tear This Heart Out (1985) -- 6 La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada (1995) -- Inconclusion: Towards Agency: From Uncharted -- Index.
Summary: This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region's socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity. Myth, exile and the female body are the central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the women writers analysed in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Construction: Archetype, Fairy Tale, Myth -- 1 Como agua para chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate (1989) -- 2 Eva Luna (1987) -- PART II: Deconstruction: Exile and Gender -- 3 La nave de los locos/The Ship of Fools (1984) -- 4 En breve cárcel/Certificate of Absence (1981) -- PART III: Reconstruction: The Female Body and Agency -- 5 Arráncame la vida/Tear This Heart Out (1985) -- 6 La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada (1995) -- Inconclusion: Towards Agency: From Uncharted -- Index.

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region's socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity. Myth, exile and the female body are the central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the women writers analysed in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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