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Book SynopsisThere are few critical studies about female characterization in the novel of the Latin American dictatorship. The existing studies, La mujer ante la dictaduraen las dos primeras novelas de Isabel Allende, by Alina Camacho Gingerich, De amor y de sombra: Una aproximación a sulectura, by Eliana Moya Raggio, and Female Development Amidst Dictatorship in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and Mario Vargas Llosa's La fiesta del Chivo, by Sereana Eileen Call, focus on female characters in novels written by Isabel Allende and Julia Alvarez. This lack of criticism ignores what other Latin American writers may have to say about female characterization in such narratives. Though a simple critical approach might be to focus on female characterization in novels written only by women, male writers should not be excluded because they often make strong statements about women's conditions through their female characters (Urania in La Fiesta del chivo, by Mario V
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements – Introduction – A Festa, Criticizing the Dictatorship and the Society that Supported It – Por la patria: Deconstructing the Official Discourse and Culture of the Pinochet Regime – Cola de lagartija, Gender Bending and the Battle of the Sexes – Conclusion.
