Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780198715139 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 264 str.

Anny Brooksbank Jones; Catherine Davies

Opis

This collection of essays on Latin American women's writing--written by the leading feminist critics in Latin America, the United States, and Europe--rethinks notions of gender and cultural identity and examines the specific discursive practices of a range of female-authored texts. The contributors offer fresh readings of canonical authors, such as Maria Luisa Bombal and Rosario Castellanos, and present essays on emerging Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina writers. The collection represents the most influential strands in current feminist criticism on Latin America, including psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, and Marxist approaches, with their diverse post-colonial and philosophical inflections.

Recenzje

By the time this review is published, institutional libraries and individuals with a particular interest in Latin-American Feminist studies will already have purchased this volume, recognizing it as an indispensible one. Anny Brooksbank Jones and Catherine Davies are to be most warmly congratulated on what is in every way (including, in passing the translations done by the two editors) an admirable, polished and truly intelligent collaborative venture from which students and specialists alike will derive stimulus for years to come. - Verity Smith - Bulletin of Hispanic Studies No 3. July 1999