Format:
VIII, 202 S
,
23 cm
ISBN:
0271034394
,
9780271034386
,
0271034386
,
9780271034393
Series Statement:
The Penn State Romance studies series
Content:
"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
Content:
"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
Note:
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Frau
;
Soziale Rolle
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
