Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
Contents
The politics of representation of women in Mexican literature -- Rulfo's Susana San Juan : woman as subject and object of desire -- Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women -- Juana Ines de la Cruz and Octavio Paz : the crucible of poetry -- Questions of female identity : Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernandez, and Maria Luisa Puga -- Identity and the other as myself : Elena Poniatowska -- The hard edge : Cristina Pacheco -- Poetry from the margins : Sandra Cisneros -- Like Water for Chocolate : a celebration of the Mexican pre-aesthetic -- Conclusion : there must be another way.
