Talking Back Toward a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism |
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| Author:
| Castillo, Debra A. |
| Series title: | Reading Women Writing Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-4155-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2019 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $99.95 |
Book Description:
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Debra A. Castillo examines selected literary and theoretical texts by women from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, as well as the United States. Exploring the use of key authorial strategies, Castillo illuminates the ongoing process of constructing a feminist criticism that can incorporate the diverse, shifting, and often contradictory voices of Latin American feminist writers.
Castillo first provides a general overview of the evolution of Latin American...
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Debra A. Castillo examines selected literary and theoretical texts by women from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, as well as the United States. Exploring the use of key authorial strategies, Castillo illuminates the ongoing process of constructing a feminist criticism that can incorporate the diverse, shifting, and often contradictory voices of Latin American feminist writers.
Castillo first provides a general overview of the evolution of Latin American feminist theory. She offers close readings of works by such Latin American authors as Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Julieta Campos, Clarice Lispector, Rosario Castellanos, and Marfa Luisa Puga, as well as of the bicultural texts of the North Americans Helena Maria Viramontes, Denise Chávez and Maxine Hong Kingston. In conclusion, she speculates on the potential role of the academic Latin Americanist as feminist critic.
Talking Back will be essential reading for students and scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, comparative literature, literary theory, and women's studies.