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Author Unruh, Vicky.

Title Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin America [electronic resource] : intervening acts / Vicky Unruh.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 276 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-266) and index.
Contents The "fatal fact" of the new woman writer in Latin America, 1920s-1930s -- Alfonsina Storni's misfits: a critical refashioning of poetisa aesthetics -- Walking backwards: Victoria Ocampo's scenes of intrusion -- No place like home : Norah Lange's art of anatomy -- Choreography with words : Nellie Campobello's search for a writer's pose -- "Dressing and undressing the mind" : Antonieta Rivas Mercado's unfinished performance -- Acts of literary privilege in Havana : Mariblanca Sabas Aloma and Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta -- Ad-libs by the women of Amauta : Magda Portal and Maria Wiesse -- A refusal to perform : Patricia Galvao's spy on the wall.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Latin American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0292709455 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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