Rewriting womanhood : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903

Rewriting womanhood feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903

In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903) by Ana...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press [2009]
Colección:Penn State Romance studies.
Materias:
Spanish American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Spanish American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > Latin America.
Women in literature.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433899706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Women’s Imagined Roles in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Seclusion in the Midst of Progress and Early Feminist Reactions
  • 2 Coming of Age(ncy): Refugio Barragán de Toscano’s La hija del bandido
  • 3 Women in Peru: National and Private Struggles for Independence
  • 4 New Models for New Women: Rethinking Cinderella’s Virtues and Humanizing the Stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera’s Blanca Sol
  • 5 Women as Body in Puerto Rico: Medicine, Morality, and Institutionalizations of Sexual Oppression in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • 6 Sexual Agency in Ana Roqué’s Luz y sombra: A Subversion of the Essentialized Woman
  • Conclusions
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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