Changing women, changing nation
Subtitle: female agency, nationhood, and identity in trans-Salvadoran narratives
By: Yajaira M. Padilla
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438442778
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) in literature; Salvadoran fiction; Salvadoran Revolutionary literature; History and criticism; Hispanic American authors; American fiction; In literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Campesina as nation : feminine resistance and power in Manlio Argueta's Un día en la vida and Cuzcatlán : donde bate la mar del sur; title: Making militants and mothers : rethinking the image of the guerillera in women's revolutionary testimonios; title: Setting la diabla free : women, violence, and the struggle for representation in postwar El Salvador; title: Hermanas lejanas : female immigrant subjectivities and the politics of voice in the Salvadoran transnational community; title: Salvadoran-American sleuthing in the US south and beyond : Marcos McPeek Villatoro's Romilia Chacón mystery series.