Title Gendered spaces in Argentine women's literature / Marta Sierra

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents Displacing Domesticity: Cosmopolitanisms, Travel Writing, and Narratives of the Home -- "Of Other Spaces": Staging Repression in the Works of Griselda Gambaro and Diana Raznovich -- Global Patagonia: Rewriting the National Space -- Poetic Crossovers: The Paradoxical Spaces of Women's Poetry Summary Addressing the largely understudied issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book includes a discussion on gender implications of spatial categories like the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the "quest for place" in women's writing from Argentina from 1910 to the present. This study offers a cross-disciplinary model, blending theories from the social sciences' approaches to the production of space, feminist criticism about spatialization processes as gender based, and Latin American theories on geopolitics and the establishment of national territories "Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature addresses the largely understudied issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works. It addresses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the role they came to play in the literary history and cultural criticism of Argentina from 1920 to the present. This study offers a cross-disciplinary model, blending theories from literary studies and cultural geography, and drawing on the methods of gender and women's studies, Latin American studies, and literary studies"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index Notes Print version record Subject Argentine literature -- History and criticism Women -- Argentina. Gender identity in literature. Space and time in literature. Literary studies: general -- Spanish -- Argentina. Gender studies: women -- Spanish -- Argentina. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Literature. Argentine literature Gender identity in literature Space and time in literature Women Argentina Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137122803 1137122803 128058503X 9781280585036 9780230120853 0230120857

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