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Noted scholars of Latin American and Spanish literature here explore the literary history of Latin America through the representation of iconic female characters. Focusing both on canonical novels and on works virtually unknown outside their original countries, the essays discuss the important ways in which these characters represent nature, history, race and sex, the effects of globalization, and the unknowable "other." They examine how both male and female writers portray Latin American women, reinterpreting the dynamics between the genders across boundaries and historical periods. Drawing on recent theories in literary criticism, gender, and Latin American studies, these essays illuminate the women characters as conduits for the appreciation of their countries and cultures.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Marjorie Agosín
Introduction
I. WOMAN AS NATURE
1. Gender and Nation from Past to Present: From María to Macabéa
HÉCTOR FERNÁNDEZ-L'HOESTE
2. Intoxicating Outlaws: Dominance and Sexuality in Rómulo Gallegos' Doña Bárbara
PATRICIA L. SWIER
3. Through the Eyes of the Child: The Narrator of Balún Canán
JEANIE MURPHY
II. WOMAN IN HISTORY
4. María Eugenia Alonso: The Modern Iphigenia Sacrificed to Society
ROSEANNA MUELLER
5. Jesusa in the Context of Testimonios: Witness to an Age or Witness to Herself
LINDA LEDFORD-MILLER
6. La cómplice oficial: Catalina in Angeles Mastretta's Arráncame la vida
ALICE EDWARDS
7. Cultural and Literary Ethos as Represented in García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba
JEFFREY OXFORD
III. WOMAN AS THE PERVERSE POWERS OF RACE AND SEX
8. Blackness, Otherness, Woman(ness): Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles or the Death Throes of Colonial Cartagena
LEONORA SIMONOVIS
9. Gabriela, or Freedom Versus Marriage
LINDA LEDFORD-MILLER
IV. WOMAN AND THE BURDEN OF GLOBALIZATION
10. Sex and the Two Cartagenas in Óscar Collazos' Rencor
ALDONA POBUTSKY
11. Reality by the Garbage Truckload: The Case of Unica Oconitrillo
JERRY HOEG
V. WOMAN AS THE UNKNOWABLE OTHER
12. Women in Borges: Teodelina Villar in "El Zahir"
MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ-LAMARQUE
13. Life Amidst the Ashes: Irene's Search for Meaning and Connection in María Flora Yáñez's Las cenizas
LISA MERSCHEL
14. Can the Feminine Speak? Narrating Madalena and Macabéa
MARCUS V.C. BRASILEIRO
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