Full Description
This book offers insights into a range of major Latin American women writers whose works are only just beginning to be known by English-speaking readers.
The majority of Latin American writers now well-known to the English-speaking world are men; this collection of essays from a wide range of nationalities, aims to redress the balance by instead focusing on women's writing.
Included are chapters on the impact of critics such as Victoria Ocampo, who changes the face of the Latin American literary scene; on Chilean playwrights, Nicaraguan revolutionary poets, Columbian women's writing; interviews with the novelist Margo Glantz, and with the film director Maria Luisa Bemberg. Also features are studies of such novelists as the starkly realist Elena Poniatowska, and the lyrically surrealist Maria Luisa Bombal; and an essay on Clarice Lispector by her official English language translator.
This collection offers a variety of approaches and aims to demonstrate the extraordinary power and vitality of women writers selected from a wide range of Latin American countries- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, among others - whose works are attaining international recognition.
This is a book for interested general readers, especially those concerned with women writers, as well as for literature students.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: Looking for the roots of wings - Susan Bassnett
1. Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979): Precursor - John King
2. Maria Luisa Bombal: Biography of a Story-Telling Woman - Marjorie Agosin
3. Speaking with Many Voices: The Poems of Alejandra Pizarnik - Susan Bassnett
4. Confronting Myths of Oppression: The Short Stories of Rosario Castellanos - Chloe Furnival
5. Clarice Lispector: An Intinuitive Approach to Fiction - Giovanni Pontiero
6. 'I Will be a Scandal in your Boat': Women Poets and the Tradition - Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz
7. Images of Women in Cuba's Post-Revolutionary Narrative - Nissa Torrents
8. Subverting the Dominant Text: Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego - Juan Bruce-Novoa
9. One Hundred Years of Unread Writing: Soledad Acosta, Elisa Mujica and Marvel Moreno - Montserrat Ordonez
10. Griselda Gambaro and the Female Dramatist: The Audacious Trespasser - Catherine Boyle
11. Assailing the Heights of Macho Pictures: Women Film-Makers in Contemporary Argentina - John King
12. One Woman's Cinema: Interview with Maria Luisa Bemberg - Nissa Torrents
13. A Place for Eve in the Revolution: Giaconda Belli and Rosario Murillo - Patricia Murray
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