Essays on motifs employed in women's novels from Spain and Latin America between 1936 and the present. An analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs - the Bildungsroman, the patriarchal prison, the fairy tale, sexual politics and gender trouble -in a selection of representative women's novels from Spain and Latin America written between 1936 and the present.
STEPHEN M. HART is Reader in the Department of Spanish and...