Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria

ISBN-13: 9780230606586 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 191 str.

Madeline Camara Betancourt

Opis

This book examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality, and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Camara-Betancourt discusses four Cuban writers: Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta, Lydia Cabrera, Maria Elena Cruz Varela, and Zoe Valdes.

Recenzje

"Though the author does not aspire to rewrite the history of women's writing or Cuban literature, her previous comprehensive works on escritoras cubanas certainly make her an authoritative voice. Similarly, the copious endnotes point readers to appropriate sources for fuller discussion, so the book will indeed prove a useful survey of Cuban women writers." - J.M. Beatson, Choice

Spis treści

A Polyphonic Introduction The Feminist Discourse of Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta: Garzona or Espartana? Lydia Cabrera: Along the Paths of Cryptomemory Cassandra's Calling: The Poetics of Convocation in the Works of María Elena Cruz Varela From the Baroque to Postmodernism: Parody of the Picaresque in La nada cotidiana (In)Conclusions

O autorze

MADELINE CAMÁRA BETANCOURT is Associate Professor of World Languages at the University of South Florida, USA.