Hybrid nations
Subtitle: gender troping and the emergence of bigendered subjects in Latin American narrative
By: Patricia Lapolla Swier.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780838642092
Subjects: Martí, José, -- 1853-1895; Gallegos, Rómulo, -- 1884-1969; Asturias, Miguel Angel; Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Spanish American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Gender identity in literature; Sex role in literature; National characteristics, Latin American, in literature
Description: This book is an interdisciplinary study that addresses the critical role that gender plays in the formation of national identities in Latin America that are negotiated and challenged within extreme struggles for power. This study, which traverses the national landscapes of Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, and Guatemala and covers the time span between 1837 and 1946, is linked by the author's common strategy of employing gender codes in order to challenge overtly masculinist hegemonic political orders. One of the goals of this investigation is to explore the fissures that surface as a result of the ongoing fluctuations of gender codes, due in part to the diverse shifting of institutions of power during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. By disturbing deleterious conceptualizations associated with femininity and masculinity, one can embark upon new and open-ended readings of these historical national texts, and appreciate the groundbreaking strides of early revolutionary Latin American writers. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.