How and Why I Write: Redefining Hispanic Women's Writing and Experience

ISBN-13: 9780820468358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 193 str.

Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara

Opis

Recent Spanish and Latin American narratives particularly those written by women have engaged in a renewed identity search. Combining a broad range of genres associated with both fiction and nonfiction, the works of Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rosa Montero and Soledad Puertolas transgress traditional generic boundaries in order to recreate an identity. Furthermore, the authors place importance on both the writing technique and the story itself. By foregrounding the writing process the authors aim to reconstruct their professional identities as writers while narrating a story. The resulting works provide an insight into the alternatives available to women and writers in the wake of the millennium."

Recenzje

"'How and Why I Write: Redefining Hispanic Women's Writing and Experience' analyzes a paradigm shift in its defiance and transgression of traditional uses of genre. Meticulously researched and sensitive to the cultural nuances of each text, this study unveils through close reading how the narrative of a life (autobiography) is as much the story of how that life is reconstructed through the processes and products of writing." (Elizabeth J. Ordóñez, The Metropolitan State College of Denver)
"Marisa Postlewate analyzes and writes with passion, perseverance and originality. Her reflections are always interesting and compelling, even in the case where our point of view differs. In summation, it is a solid work." (Rosa Montero, award winning author of 'La hija del canibal')

O autorze

The Author: Marisa Herrera Postlewate is a native of Madrid, Spain. She received her Ph.D. in humanities with a concentration in modern and contemporary peninsular literature from The University of Texas at Arlington, where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. She has published articles on contemporary Spanish narrative in scholarly journals.