Spanish American Women's Use of the Word
Subtitle: Colonial Through Contemporary Narratives
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780816517121
Subjects: Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Latin America; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Spanish American prose literat; Spanish American prose literature; Women Authors
Description: "Women's participation, both formal and informal, in the creation of what we now call Spanish America is reflected in its literary legacy. Stacey Schlau examines what women from a wide spectrum of classes and races have to say about the societies in which they lived and their place in them.".

"Schlau has written the first book to study a historical selection of Spanish American women's writings with an emphasis on social and political themes. Through their words, she offers an alternative vision of the development of narrative genres - critical, fictional, and testimonial - from colonial times to the present."--BOOK JACKET.