This volume comprises a scholarly collection of essays of an international and interdisciplinary nature, encompassing literary, sociological, historical, and structural approaches to works by women.

This collection of essays offers a wide variety of literatures, critical approaches, and perspectives. The articles are distributed as follows: eight on French literature, two on the literature written in French from QuÈbec, six on Latin-American, and five on German and Austrian literatures.

This volume comprises a scholarly collection of essays of an international and interdisciplinary nature, encompassing literary, sociological, historical, and structural approaches to works by women. In addition, women writers seldom studied in the United States are introduced in a unique multicultural approach that will contribute to feminist theories and creative work by women.

Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.

This book provides a much needed grouping of Latin-American women, emphasizing their differences—the diversity of their cultural backgrounds, socio-economic conditions, and literary strategies—as well as their commonalities. Humble writers of the Spanish and Portuguese testimonio and sophisticated postmodernist authors alike are contextualized within a "matriheritage of founding discourses."

Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.