Rewriting womanhood
Subtitle: feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903
By: Nancy LaGreca.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780271034386; 9780271034393
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Feminism and literature -- Latin America; Women in literature
Description: "An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragán of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roqué of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis à vis the prescribed comportment for women during a conservative era"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico; title: Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragìn de Toscano's La hija del bandido; title: Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence; title: New models for new women; title: Women as body in Puerto Rico; title: Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra.