Rereading the Spanish American Essay
Title | Rereading the Spanish American Essay PDF eBook |
Author | Doris Meyer |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2010-07-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0292786255 |
Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of this rich tradition, yet they have seldom received the respect they merit and are often omitted entirely from anthologies. This volume and its earlier companion, Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, seek to remedy that neglect. This 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. All of the essays are here translated into English for the first time, many by the same scholars who wrote critical studies of the authors in the first volume. Each author's work is also prefaced by a brief biographical sketch.
Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay
Title | Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay PDF eBook |
Author | Doris Meyer |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2010-06-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0292757824 |
Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored and is rarely studied. 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. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the authors look at the way women writers have interpreted the essay genre, molded it to their expression, and created an intellectual tradition of their own. Some of the writers they treat are Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferré, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska. This book is the first of a two-volume project that reexamines the Latin American essay from a feminist perspective. The second volume, also edited by Doris Meyer, contains thirty-six essays in translation by twenty-two women authors.
In Quest of Identity
Title | In Quest of Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Martin S. Stabb |
Publisher | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In Quest of Identity: Patterns in the Spanish American Essay of Ideas, 1890-1960
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003
Title | Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Balderston |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 701 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Caribbean literature |
ISBN | 113439960X |
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.
Encyclopedia of the Essay
Title | Encyclopedia of the Essay PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Chevalier |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1032 |
Release | 2012-10-12 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1135314101 |
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
A Companion to Spanish-American Literature
Title | A Companion to Spanish-American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen M. Hart |
Publisher | Tamesis |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781855660656 |
"There are also separate sections on the modernistas and postmodernismo, avant-garde poetry in the twentieth century, and the Boom novel. A final chapter is dedicated to an analysis of some recent developments within the Spanish-American literary canon, such as the post-Boom novel, with a separate section on women writers, 'testimonio', Latino literature, the gay/lesbian novel, and Afro-Hispanic literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn A. Sloan |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-08-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century. From the colonial period to the present day, women across the Caribbean and Latin America were an intrinsic part of the advancement of society and helped determine the course of history. Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights their varied and important roles over five centuries of time, providing geographical breadth and ethnic diversity to the Women's Roles through History series. Women's roles are the focus of all six chapters, covering themes that include religion, family, law, politics, culture, and labor. Each section provides specific examples of real-life women throughout history, providing readers with an overview of Latin American women's history that pays special attention to continuity across regions and variances over time and geography.