Plotting Women : : Gender and Representation in Mexico / / Jean Franco.
Studies the struggles for interpretive power waged at the margins of canonical genres in letters and life stories about women in Mexico.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1989] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 1989 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gender and Culture
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Religious Narrative -- 1. Writers in Spite of Themselves: The Mystical Nuns of Seventeenth-Century Mexico -- 2. Sor Juana Explores Space -- 3. The Power of the Spider Woman: The Deluded Woman and the Inquisition -- Part II. The Nation -- 4. Sense and Sensuality: Notes on the National Period, 1812-1910 -- 5. Body and Soul: Women and Postrevolutionary Messianism -- 6. On the Impossibility of Antigone and the Inevitability of La Malinche: Rewriting the National Allegory -- 7. Oedipus Modernized -- 8. Rewriting the Family: Contemporary Feminism's Revision of the Past -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter |
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Summary: | Studies the struggles for interpretive power waged at the margins of canonical genres in letters and life stories about women in Mexico. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231888172 9783110442489 |
DOI: | 10.7312/fran92330 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jean Franco. |