Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis

by Anny Brooksbank Jones and Catherine Davies

Book Overview

This collection of essays on Latin American women's writing--written by the leading feminist critics in Latin America, the United States, and Europe--rethinks notions of gender and cultural identity and examines the specific discursive practices of a range of female-authored texts. The
contributors offer fresh readings of canonical authors, such as Maria Luisa Bombal and Rosario Castellanos, and present essays on emerging Latin American, Caribbean,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198715137
• ISBN13: 9780198715139
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"