Description
Book SynopsisThis book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferré, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.
Trade Review"The essays are clearly chosen to be different in style and content from the 'malestream' canon, and the book as a whole is full of old friends and welcome new surprises... It will be of interest not only to Latin Americanists, but also to the wider community interested in non-European gender studies and cultural studies." Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Flora Tristan
- The Countess of Merlin
- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
- Eduarda Mansilla de García
- Juana Manuela Gorriti
- Juana Azurduy de Padilla
- Emma Verdier
- Chincha
- Soledad Acosta de Samper
- The Mission of the Woman Writer in Spanish America
- Clorinda Matto de Turner
- Francisca Zubiaga de Gamarra
- The Woman Worker and the Woman
- Alfonsina Storni
- An Old Story
- Letter to the Eternal Father
- Against Charity
- The Immigrant Girl
- Women and Love
- Victoria Ocampo
- Babel
- Woman and Her Expression
- Amanda Labarca Hubertson
- About Courage
- Personal Pages
- Magda Portal
- Platforms for Living
- Toward the New Woman
- Teresa de la Parra
- The Influence of Women in the Formation of the American Soul
- Gabriela Mistral
- Victoria Ocampo
- Similarities and Differences between the Americas
- Nellie Campobello
- Yolanda Oreamuno
- Tropical Myths and the Costa Rican Environment
- Protest against Folklore
- Rosario Castellanos
- Carmen Naranjo
- Cultural Crisis in Costa Rica
- Margo Glantz
- Two Hundred Blue Whales
- My Writing Is …
- Rosario Ferré
- Woman’s Authenticity in Art
- Julieta Kirkwood
- Feminists and Political Women
- Cristina Peri Rossi
- New Year’s Eve at Daniel’s
- The Fantasy of the Passive Object: Inflatable Dolls
- Elena Poniatowska
- List of Contributors
- Contents of Volume One, Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
