Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity

Informationen zum Autor Pilar Melero is Associate Professor of Spanish, Chican@ and U.S. Latin@ Literature at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA. Klappentext Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For the first time, Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political, cultural, and literary context of early twentieth century Mexico. Zusammenfassung Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe! la Malinche! la Llorona! and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For the first time! Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political! cultural! and literary context of early twentieth century Mexico. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Motherhood as a Feminist Discursive Space 1. Desde las faldas de la madre/From Underneath Mother ' 's Skirt: Nellie Campobello (Re)Claims (Single) Motherhood and Mothers as Historians 2. Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza: Writing from the Margins of Word, Class, and Gender 3. (Re)Thinking Woman(hood): Sara Estela Ramírez, Activity, and Being 4. Andrea Villarreal González: Forming Rebels/Rebel Forming 5. Conclusion: Being Woman (Within) Patriarchy

Product details

• Authors: Pilar Melero
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137514615
• ISBN: 978-1-137-51461-5
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Literatures of the Americas; Literatures of the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; C, Gender Studies, Sociology, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, culture;feminism;gender;space;time