Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138547674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 252 str.

Emma Staniland

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Mapping the Journey: Cultural, Generic and Theoretical Contexts  Part 1: Archetype, Fairy Tale, Myth  1. Como agua para chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1984)  2.Eva Luna by Isabel Allende  Part 2: Deconstruction: Exile and Gender  3. La nave de los locos/The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi  4. En breve cárcel/Certificate of Absence by Sylvia Molloy  Part 3: The Female Body and Agency  5. Arráncame la vida/Tear This Heart Out/Mexican Bolero by Ángeles Mastretta  6. La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoé Valdés

O autorze

Emma Staniland is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests include Spanish American women’s writing, Latino/a culture and literature with a particular focus on US writers with roots in the Hispanic Caribbean, genre studies, and feminist literary theory.