Plotting Women : : Gender and Representation in Mexico / / Jean Franco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Franco, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1989]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 1989
• Language: English
• Series: Gender and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• 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
• 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.

Studies the struggles for interpretive power waged at the margins of canonical genres in letters and life stories about women in Mexico.