| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
vi, 246 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Texas Pan American series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
'Don't interrupt me': the gender essay as conversation and countercanon / Mary Louise Pratt -- Pariah/messiah: the conflictive social identity of Flora Tristan / Jill S. Kunnheim -- Slavery in the Spanish colonies: the racial politics of the countess of Merlin / Clair Emilie Martin -- 'Mejorar la condicion de mi secso': the essays of Rosa Guerra / Nancy Saporta Sternbach -- Shoring up the 'weaker sex': Avellaneda and nineteenth-century gender ideology / Nina M. Scott -- Lost in translation: Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia on politics, gender, and war / Francine Rose Masiello -- Writing for her life: the essays of Clorinda Matto de Turner / Mary G. Berg -- The Self-constructing heroine: Amanda Labarca's reflections at dawn / Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval -- Reciprocal reflections: specular discourse and the self-authorizing venture / Doris Meyer -- Teresa de la Parra: America's womanly soul / Richard Rosa and Doris Sommer -- 'Babel' and De Francesca a Beatrice: two founding essays by Victoria Ocampo / Maria Cristina Arambel Guiņazu -- Alfonsina Storni as 'Tao Lao': journalism's roving eye and poetry's confessional 'I' / Gwen Kirkpatrick -- Magda Portal, vanguard critic / Melvin S. Arrington -- Yolanda Oreamuno: the art of passionate engagement / Janet N. Gold -- The Ambivalence of power: self-disparagement in the newspaper editorials of Rosario Castellanos / Martha Lafollette Miller -- Carmen Naranjo and Costa Rican culture / Ardis L. Nelson -- Margo Glantz, tongue in hand / Beth E. Jorgensen -- Sitio a eros: the liberated eros of Rosario Ferre / Elena Gascon Vera -- Vision and transgression: some notes on the writing of Julieta Kirkwood / Marjorie Agosin -- Cristina Peri Rossi and the erotic imagination / Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal -- Woman watching women, watching / Irene Matthews. |
| Subject |
Spanish American essays -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Spanish American essays -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Spanish American essays -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Meyer, Doris.
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| ISBN |
0292751672 (alk. paper) |
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