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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Doris Meyer Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Doris Meyer. Introduction: The Spanish American Essay: A Female PerspectiveMary Louise Pratt. “Don’t Interrupt Me”: The Gender Essay as Conversation and CountercanonJill S. Kuhnheim. Pariah/Messiah: The Conflictive Social Identity of Flora TristanClaire Emilie Martin. Slavery in the Spanish Colonies: The Racial Politics of the Countess of MerlinNancy Saporta Sternbach. “Mejorar la condición de mi secso”: The Essays of Rosa GuerraNina M. Scott. Shoring Up the “Weaker Sex”: Avellaneda and Nineteenth-Century Gender IdeologyFrancine Rose Masiello. Lost in Translation: Eduarda Mansilla de García on Politics, Gender, and WarMary G. Berg. Writing for Her Life: The Essays of Clorinda Matto de TurnerSandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval. The Self-Constructing Heroine: Amanda Labarca’s Reflections at DawnDoris Meyer. Reciprocal Reflections: Specular Discourse and the Self Authorizing VentureRichard Rosa and Doris Sommer. Teresa de la Parra: America’s Womanly SoulMaría Cristina Arambel Guiñazú. “Babel” and De Francesca a Beatrice: Two Founding Essays by Victoria OcampoGwen Kirkpatrick. Alfonsina Storni as “Tao Lao”: Journalism’s Roving Eye and Poetry’s Confessional “I”Melvin S. Arrington, Jr.. Magda Portal, Vanguard CriticJanet N. Gold. Yolanda Oreamuno: The Art of Passionate EngagementMartha Lafollette Miller. The Ambivalence of Power: Self-Disparagement in the Newspaper Editorials of Rosario CastellanosArdis L. Nelson. Carmen Naranjo and Costa Rican CultureBeth E. Jörgensen. Margo Glantz, Tongue in HandElena Gascón Vera. Sitio a Eros: The Liberated Eros of Rosario FerréMarjorie Agosín. Vision and Transgression: Some Notes on the Writing of Julieta KirkwoodRosemary Geisdorfer Feal. Cristina Peri Rossi and the Erotic ImaginationIrene Matthews. Woman Watching Women, WatchingList of Contributors...
