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Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

Staniland, Emma

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0415708311
ISBN13: 9780415708319
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 21 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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. Myth, exile and the female body are the central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the women writers analysed in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés.

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