Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay : : Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries / / ed. by Doris Meyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Agosín, Marjorie,; Arrington Jr, Melvin S.,; Berg, Mary G.,; Boschetto-Sandoval, Sandra M.,; Cristina, María,; Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer,; Gold, Janet N.,; Guiñazú, Arambel,; Jörgensen, Beth E.,; Kirkpatrick, Gwen,; Kuhnheim, Jill S.,; Martin, Claire Emilie,; Masiello, Francine Rose,; Matthew, Irene,; Meyer, Doris,; Nelson, Ardis L.,; Pratt, Mary Louise,; Rosa, Richard,; Scott, Nina M.,; Sommer, Doris,; Sternbach, Nancy Saporta,; Vera, Elena Gascón,
• HerausgeberIn: Meyer, Doris,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored and is rarely studied. This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the authors look at the way women writers have interpreted the essay genre, molded it to their expression, and created an intellectual tradition of their own. Some of the writers they treat are Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferré, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska. This book is the first of a two-volume project that will reexamine the Latin American essay from a feminist perspective. The second volume, also edited by Doris Meyer, contains thirty-six essays in translation by twenty-two women authors.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: THE SPANISH AMERICAN ESSAY: A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE -- "DON'T INTERRUPT ME" THE GENDER ESSAY AS CONVERSATION AND COUNTERCANON -- PARIAH / MESSIAH: THE CONFLICTIVE SOCIAL IDENTITY OF FLORA TRISTAN -- SLAVERY IN THE SPANISH COLONIES: THE RACIAL POLITICS OF THE COUNTESS OF MERLIN -- "MEJORAR LA CONDICIÓN DE MI SECSO" THE ESSAYS OF ROSA GUERRA -- SHORING UP THE "WEAKER SEX" AVELLANEDA AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY GENDER IDEOLOGY -- LOST IN TRANSLATION: EDUARDA MANSILLA DE GARCÍA ON POLITICS, GENDER, AND WAR -- WRITING FOR HER LIFE: THE ESSAYS OF CLORINDA MATTO DE TURNER -- THE SELF: CONSTRUCTING HEROINE AMANDA LABARCA'S REFLECTIONS AT DAWN -- RECIPROCAL REFLECTIONS: SPECULAR DISCOURSE AND THE SELF-AUTHORIZING VENTURE -- TERESA DE LA PARRA: AMERICA'S WOMANLY SOUL -- "BABEL" AND DE FRANCESCA A BEATRICE: TWO FOUNDING ESSAYS BY VICTORIA OCAMPO -- ALFONSINA STORNI AS "TAO LAO" JOURNALISM'S ROVING EYE AND POETRY'S CONFESSIONAL " I " -- MAGDA PORTAL, VANGUARD CRITIC -- YOLANDA OREAMUNO THE ART OF PASSIONATE ENGAGEMENT -- THE AMBIVALENCE OF POWER: SELF-DISPARAGEMENT IN THE NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS OF ROSARIO CASTELLANOS -- CARMEN NARANJO AND COSTA RICAN CULTURE -- MARGO GLANTZ, TONGUE IN HAND -- SITIO A EROS: THE LIBERATED EROS OF ROSARIO FERRÉ -- VISION AND TRANSGRESSION: SOME NOTES ON THE WRITING OF JULIETA KIRKWOOD -- CRISTINA PERI ROSSI AND THE EROTIC IMAGINATION -- WOMAN WATCHING WOMEN, WATCHING -- List of Contributors