The Youngest Doll
By: Rosario Ferré ; foreword by Jean Franco.
Series: Latin American women writers
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Lincoln, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780803219830; 9780803268746
Description: A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. “The Youngest Doll,” based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferré’s feminist and social concerns. It is the premier story in a collection that was originally published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and is now translated into English by the author. The daughter of a former governor of Puerto Rico, Ferré portrays women loosening the constraints that have bound them to a patriarchal culture. Anger takes creative rather than polemical form in ten stories that started Ferré on her way to becoming a leading woman writer in Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-169).
Translation of: Papeles de Pandora.