UID:
almafu_9961152441502883
Format:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-61504-3
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1-315-88609-X
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1-134-61497-7
Series Statement:
Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature ; 27
Content:
This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration.Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction -- PART I: Construction: Archetype, Fairy Tale, Myth: Chapter 1 Como agua para chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate / by Laura Esquivel (1989) -- Chapter 2 Eva Luna / by Isabel Allende (1987) -- PART II: Deconstruction: Exile and Gender: Chapter 3 La nave de los locos/The Ship of Fools / by Cristina Peri Rossi (1984) -- Chapter 4 En breve cárcel/Certificate of Absence / by Sylvia Molloy (1981) -- PART III: Reconstruction: The Female Body and Agency: Chapter 5 Arráncame la vida/Tear This Heart Out (1985) / by Ángeles Mastretta (1985) -- Chapter 6 La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada / by Zoé Valdés (1995)
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English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315886091
