Gender and the self in Latin American literature
By: Emma Staniland
Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature -- 27; Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature -- 27.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415708319
Subjects: Spanish American fiction; Women authors; Self in literature; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Construction: archetype, fairy tale, myth. Como agua para chocolate/Like water for chocolate (1989) by Laura Esquivel; title: Eva luna (1987) by Isabel Allende; title: Deconstruction: exile and gender. La nave de los locos/The ship of fools (1984) by Cristina Peri Rossi; title: En breve cárcel/Certificate of absence (1981) by Sylvia Molloy; title: Reconstruction: the female body and agency. Arráncame la vida/Tear this heart out/Mexican bolero (1986) by Ángeles Mastretta; title: La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the paradise of nada (1995) by Zoé Valdés.