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This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists.

Table of Contents
  • Doris Meyer. Introduction: The Spanish American Essay: A Female Perspective
  • Mary Louise Pratt. “Don’t Interrupt Me”: The Gender Essay as Conversation and Countercanon
  • Jill S. Kuhnheim. Pariah/Messiah: The Conflictive Social Identity of Flora Tristan
  • Claire Emilie Martin. Slavery in the Spanish Colonies: The Racial Politics of the Countess of Merlin
  • Nancy Saporta Sternbach. “Mejorar la condición de mi secso”: The Essays of Rosa Guerra
  • Nina M. Scott. Shoring Up the “Weaker Sex”: Avellaneda and Nineteenth-Century Gender Ideology
  • Francine Rose Masiello. Lost in Translation: Eduarda Mansilla de García on Politics, Gender, and War
  • Mary G. Berg. Writing for Her Life: The Essays of Clorinda Matto de Turner
  • Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval. The Self-Constructing Heroine: Amanda Labarca’s Reflections at Dawn
  • Doris Meyer. Reciprocal Reflections: Specular Discourse and the Self Authorizing Venture
  • Richard Rosa and Doris Sommer. Teresa de la Parra: America’s Womanly Soul
  • María Cristina Arambel Guiñazú. “Babel” and De Francesca a Beatrice: Two Founding Essays by Victoria Ocampo
  • Gwen Kirkpatrick. Alfonsina Storni as “Tao Lao”: Journalism’s Roving Eye and Poetry’s Confessional “I”
  • Melvin S. Arrington, Jr.. Magda Portal, Vanguard Critic
  • Janet N. Gold. Yolanda Oreamuno: The Art of Passionate Engagement
  • Martha Lafollette Miller. The Ambivalence of Power: Self-Disparagement in the Newspaper Editorials of Rosario Castellanos
  • Ardis L. Nelson. Carmen Naranjo and Costa Rican Culture
  • Beth E. Jörgensen. Margo Glantz, Tongue in Hand
  • Elena Gascón Vera. Sitio a Eros: The Liberated Eros of Rosario Ferré
  • Marjorie Agosín. Vision and Transgression: Some Notes on the Writing of Julieta Kirkwood
  • Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal. Cristina Peri Rossi and the Erotic Imagination
  • Irene Matthews. Woman Watching Women, Watching
  • List of Contributors

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9780292723870, 978-0292723870
      ISBN10: 0292723873

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists.

      Table of Contents
      • Doris Meyer. Introduction: The Spanish American Essay: A Female Perspective
      • Mary Louise Pratt. “Don’t Interrupt Me”: The Gender Essay as Conversation and Countercanon
      • Jill S. Kuhnheim. Pariah/Messiah: The Conflictive Social Identity of Flora Tristan
      • Claire Emilie Martin. Slavery in the Spanish Colonies: The Racial Politics of the Countess of Merlin
      • Nancy Saporta Sternbach. “Mejorar la condición de mi secso”: The Essays of Rosa Guerra
      • Nina M. Scott. Shoring Up the “Weaker Sex”: Avellaneda and Nineteenth-Century Gender Ideology
      • Francine Rose Masiello. Lost in Translation: Eduarda Mansilla de García on Politics, Gender, and War
      • Mary G. Berg. Writing for Her Life: The Essays of Clorinda Matto de Turner
      • Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval. The Self-Constructing Heroine: Amanda Labarca’s Reflections at Dawn
      • Doris Meyer. Reciprocal Reflections: Specular Discourse and the Self Authorizing Venture
      • Richard Rosa and Doris Sommer. Teresa de la Parra: America’s Womanly Soul
      • María Cristina Arambel Guiñazú. “Babel” and De Francesca a Beatrice: Two Founding Essays by Victoria Ocampo
      • Gwen Kirkpatrick. Alfonsina Storni as “Tao Lao”: Journalism’s Roving Eye and Poetry’s Confessional “I”
      • Melvin S. Arrington, Jr.. Magda Portal, Vanguard Critic
      • Janet N. Gold. Yolanda Oreamuno: The Art of Passionate Engagement
      • Martha Lafollette Miller. The Ambivalence of Power: Self-Disparagement in the Newspaper Editorials of Rosario Castellanos
      • Ardis L. Nelson. Carmen Naranjo and Costa Rican Culture
      • Beth E. Jörgensen. Margo Glantz, Tongue in Hand
      • Elena Gascón Vera. Sitio a Eros: The Liberated Eros of Rosario Ferré
      • Marjorie Agosín. Vision and Transgression: Some Notes on the Writing of Julieta Kirkwood
      • Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal. Cristina Peri Rossi and the Erotic Imagination
      • Irene Matthews. Woman Watching Women, Watching
      • List of Contributors

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