Lesbian Voices from Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780415790437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Elena M. Martínez

Opis

This book, first published in 1996, examines the articulation of lesbian themes, motifs and issues in the works of Latin American women writers. It aims to study the problems pertaining to the specific literary representations of lesbianism and to examine the dimensions of a lesbian view in the works.

Spis treści

1. The Poetics of Space and the Politics of Lesbian Exile: Magaly Alabau’s Poetry and Sylvia Molloy’s Novel Certificate of Absence  2. Re-Reading a Tradition: Lesbian Eroticism in Magaly Alabau’s Electra/Clitemnestra and Hermana  3. Privileging Lesbian Eroticism: The Works of Rosamaría Roffiel and Nancy Cárdenas  4. Lesbian Eroticism and the Act of Writing: Sylvia Molloy’s Certificate of Absence  5. Sexual and Political Affirmation in Luz María Umpiere’s The Margarita Poems and ...Y otras desgracias. And Other Misfortunes

O autorze

Elena M. Martinez