Fashioning Feminism in Cuba and Beyond
Subtitle: The Prose of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (Caribbean Studies, 8)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780820457345
Subjects: Caribbean & Latin American; Feminist; Women Authors; Literary Criticism; 1814-1873; Criticism and interpretation; Cuba; Feminism; Feminism in literature; Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga; Gâomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, Gertrudis,; History
Description: "Though open public discussion of the oppression of women was precluded by the nature of Hispanic societies during the nineteenth century, some Hispanic women - among them the Cuban writer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda - subtly sought to promote ideas of emancipation. Focusing upon her autobiographical letters and a selection of her novels, and drawing on contemporary psychoanalytical feminist theory, this book traces the evolution of Avellaneda's feminism, showing how she developed a series of narrative techniques and stylistic resources to explore male and female self-representation, and subvert the existing textual tradition.

Fashioning Feminism in Cuba and Beyond establishes Avellaneda at the forefront of both Cuban and Hispanic nineteenth-century literature and feminist thought."--BOOK JACKET.