The end of the twentieth century witnessed a -boom- in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women s writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the -post-boom- period of Latin American literary history, a phenomenon that has been influenced in turn by the burgeoning development of a number of women s movements on the continent. Within this -boom-, the short story has become an increasingly popular genre amongst women writers. This book considers the location(s) of four major women writers Cristina...
The end of the twentieth century witnessed a -boom- in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women s writing from Latin America....