Latin-American Women Writers : Class, Race, and Gender
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| Title: | Latin-American Women Writers : Class, Race, and Gender |
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| Description: | This book describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives.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.”Myriam Yvonne Jehenson is Professor and Chair of International Languages and Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hartford. She is the author of The Golden World of Pastoral: A Comparative Study of Philip Sidney's'Arcadias'and Honore d'Urfe's'L'Astree. |
| Authors: | Jehenson, Myriam Yvonne |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Latin American fiction--Women authors--History, Latin American fiction--History and criticism. -, Feminism and literature--History--20th century, Women and literature--History--20th century. -, Feminism in literature, Women in literature, Race in literature, Social classes in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, HISTORY / Latin America / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives.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.”Myriam Yvonne Jehenson is Professor and Chair of International Languages and Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hartford. She is the author of The Golden World of Pastoral: A Comparative Study of Philip Sidney's'Arcadias'and Honore d'Urfe's'L'Astree. |
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| ISBN: | 9780791425602 9780791425596 9781438407852 |
