Gendered self-consciousness in Mexican and Chicana women writers
Subtitle: the female body as an instrument of political resistance
By: Traci Roberts-Camps ; with a foreword by Debra A. Castillo.
Publisher: E. Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780773452350
Subjects: Mexican literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Mexican literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Mexico; Feminist literary criticism -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963) : violence, space, and the female body; title: Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me vera llorar (1999) : abjection, national progress, and the female body; title: Elena Poniatowska, La piel del cielo (2001) : sensuality and the female body; title: Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo (2002) : (in)visibility and the female body.