Cuban Women Writers - Imagining a Matria

Zusatztext "Though the author does not aspire to rewrite the history of women's writing or Cuban literature! her previous comprehensive works on escritoras cubanas certainly make her an authoritative voice. Similarly! the copious endnotes point readers to appropriate sources for fuller discussion! so the book will indeed prove a useful survey of Cuban women writers." - J.M. Beatson! Choice Informationen zum Autor MADELINE CAMÁRA BETANCOURT is Associate Professor of World Languages at the University of South Florida, USA. Klappentext Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Zusammenfassung Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language! power! sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba! analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Polyphonic Introduction The Feminist Discourse of Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta: Garzona or Espartana? Lydia Cabrera: Along the Paths of Cryptomemory Cassandra's Calling: The Poetics of Convocation in the Works of María Elena Cruz Varela From the Baroque to Postmodernism: Parody of the Picaresque in La nada cotidiana (In)Conclusions

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• Authors: M Betancourt, M. Betancourt, Madeline Camara Betancourt, BETANCOURT MADELINE CAMARA
• Assisted by: David Frye (Translation), Kenneth A Loparo (Translation), Kenneth A. Loparo (Translation)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9780230606586
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60658-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Concepts in Latino America; New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri; New Concepts in Latino America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Gender Studies, Literature, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, The Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Literature, general, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, United States—Study and teaching, American Culture, Literature: history and criticism, Baroque;language;postmodernism;women