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Covers the practice of feminist criticism in the context of Latin American literature, bringing together Latin American materialist and feminist criticism. The female body is at the centre of this analysis and is tied to a political movement dedicated to the eradication of gender oppression.

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Translating gender; Gender as category and feminism as strategy in Latin American literary analysis; The presence in absence of exile; Body/politics: Alicia Partnoy's The little school; Gaby Brimmer - A life in three voices; The uses and limits of foreign feminist theory - Elena Garro's "Los Recuerdos del Porvenir"; Sylvia Molloy's lesbian cartographies - body, text, and geography; Cristina Peri Rossi and the question of lesbian presence; Afterword.

Reading The Body Politic Feminist Criticism and

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      Publisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 11/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816619481, 978-0816619481
      ISBN10: 0816619484

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Covers the practice of feminist criticism in the context of Latin American literature, bringing together Latin American materialist and feminist criticism. The female body is at the centre of this analysis and is tied to a political movement dedicated to the eradication of gender oppression.

      Table of Contents
      Translating gender; Gender as category and feminism as strategy in Latin American literary analysis; The presence in absence of exile; Body/politics: Alicia Partnoy's The little school; Gaby Brimmer - A life in three voices; The uses and limits of foreign feminist theory - Elena Garro's "Los Recuerdos del Porvenir"; Sylvia Molloy's lesbian cartographies - body, text, and geography; Cristina Peri Rossi and the question of lesbian presence; Afterword.

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