Title Reading the Body Politic : Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages) Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Translating Gender; 2 Gender as Category and Feminism as Strategy in Latin American Literary Analysis; 3 The Presence in Absence of Exile; 4 Body/Politics: Alicia Partnoy's The Little School; 5 Gaby Brimmer: A Life in Three Voices; 6 The Uses and Limits of Foreign Feminist Theory: Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir; 7 Sylvia Molloy's Lesbian Cartographies: Body, Text, and Geography; 8 Cristina Peri Rossi and the Question of Lesbian Presence; Afterword: In the Realm of the Real; Notes; Index Summary Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices Notes Print version record Subject Feminist literary criticism -- Latin America Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Latin American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Feminist literary criticism Latin American literature Latin American literature -- Women authors Latin America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816683802 0816683808

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