Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America : : Intervening Acts / / Vicky Unruh.
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The “Fatal Fact” of the New Woman Writer in Latin America, 1920s–1930s
- Chapter 1 Alfonsina Storni’s Misfits: A Critical Refashioning of Poetisa Aesthetics
- Chapter 2 Walking Backwards: Victoria Ocampo’s Scenes of Intrusion
- Chapter 3 No Place Like Home: Norah Lange’s Art of Anatomy
- Chapter 4 Choreography with Words: Nellie Campobello’s Search for a Writer’s Pose
- Chapter 5 “Dressing and Undressing the Mind”: Antonieta Rivas Mercado’s Unfi nished Performance
- Chapter 6 Acts of Literary Privilege in Havana: Mariblanca Sabas Alomá and Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta
- Chapter 7 Ad-libs by the Women of Amauta: Magda Portal and María Wiesse
- Chapter 8 A Refusal to Perform: Patrícia Galvão’s Spy on the Wall
- Notes
- References
- Index