A Rosario Castellanos Reader : : An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama / / Rosario Castellanos; ed. by Maureen Ahern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Castellanos, Rosario,
• HerausgeberIn: Ahern, Maureen,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ahern, Maureen.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the first time, allowing English-speaking readers to see the depth and range of Castellanos' work. In her introductory essay, "Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs," Maureen Ahern presents the first comprehensive study of Castellanos' work as a sign or signifying system. This approach through contemporary semiotic theory unites literary criticism and translation as an integral semiotic process. Ahern reveals how Castellanos integrated women's images, bodies, voices, and texts to feminize her discourse and create a plurality of new signs/messages about women in Mexico. Describing this process in The Eternal Feminine, Castellanos observes, ".it's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs -- Poetry: Silences and Otherness -- Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos -- Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos -- Fiction: Under a Man's Hand -- Essays: Writing Her Self -- The Eternal Feminine: Destroying the Myths -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Rosario Castellanos: A Basic Bibliography of Her Writing -- A Select Bibliography of Rosario Castellanos Criticism -- Silence Near an Ancient Stone -- To a Tiny Mayan Badger -- The Other -- Monologue of a Foreign Woman -- Routine -- Presence -- Passage -- Consciousness -- Metamorphosis of the Sorceress -- Chess -- Brief Chronicle -- Malinche -- Memorandum on Tlatelolco -- Self-Portrait -- Speaking of Gabriel -- Home Economics -- Learning about Things -- Postscript -- You Are Not Poetry -- Re: Mutilations -- Meditation on the Brink -- Kinsey Report -- Looking at the Mona Lisa -- Nobodying -- Nazareth -- The Eagle -- Three Knots in the Net -- Fleeting Friendships -- The Widower Roman -- Cooking Lesson -- Incident at Yalentay -- Once Again Sor Juana -- An Attempt at Self-Criticism -- Discrimination in the United States and in Chiapas -- A Man of Destiny -- Woman and Her Image -- The Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman -- Language as an Instrument of Domination -- If Not Poetry, Then What? -- Self-Sacrifice Is a Mad Virtue -- The Liberation of Love -- Herlinda Leaves -- The Eternal Feminine -- Notes -- Notes on the Editor and the Translators -- Index