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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Table of Contents:
- 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