Umfang:
VIII, 202 S
,
23 cm
ISBN:
0271034394
,
9780271034386
,
0271034386
,
9780271034393
Serie:
The Penn State Romance studies series
Inhalt:
"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
Inhalt:
"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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-193) and index
,
Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Romanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Lateinamerika
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Frau
;
Soziale Rolle
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
