Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin America
Subtitle: intervening acts
By: Vicky Unruh.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Latin American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "In this innovative book, Vicky Unruh explores how women writers of the vanguard period often gained access to literary life as public performers. Using a novel, interdisciplinary synthesis of performance theory, she shows how Latin American women's work in theatre, poetry declamation, song, dance, oration, witty display, and bold journalistic self-portraiture helped them craft their public personas as writers and shaped their singular forms of analytical thought, cultural critique, and literary style.

Concentrating on eleven writers from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, Unruh demonstrates that, as these women identified themselves as instigators of change rather than as passive muses, they unleashed penetrating critiques of projects for social and artistic modernization in Latin America."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "fatal fact" of the new woman writer in Latin America, 1920s-1930s; title: Alfonsina Storni's misfits: A critical refashioning of poetisa aesthetics; title: Walking backwards: Victoria Ocampo's scenes of intrusion; title: No place like home : Norah Lange's art of anatomy; title: Choreography with words : Nellie Campobello's search for a writer's pose; title: "Dressing and undressing the mind" : Antonieta Rivas Mercado's unfinished performance; title: Acts of literary privilege in Havana : Mariblanca Sabas Alomá and Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta; title: Ad-libs by the women of Amauta : Magda Portal and María Wiesse; title: A refusal to perform : Patrícia Galvão's spy on the wall.