Prospero's Daughter : : The Prose of Rosario Castellanos / / Joanna O'Connell.

A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1995
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Prospero's Daughter
  • 2. Castellanos as Resisting Reader: Sobre cultura femenina
  • 3. Castellanos and Indigenismo in Mexico
  • 4. Baún Canán as Palimpsest
  • 5. Ciudad Real: The Pitfalls of Indigenista Consciousness
  • 6. Versions of History in Ojicio de tinieblas
  • 7. "Buceando cada vez mas hondo . . .": The Dangerous Memory of Women's Lives
  • 8. Public Writing, Public Reading: Rosario Castellanos as Essayist
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index