Locating Latin American Women Writers

Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferré, Albalucía Angel, and Isabel Allende

von Claire Lindsay

164 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The end of the twentieth century witnessed a «boom» in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women’s writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the «post-boom» period of Latin American literary history, a phenomenon that has been influenced in turn by the burgeoning development of a number of women’s movements on the continent. Within this «boom», the short story has become an increasingly popular genre amongst women writers. This book considers the location(s) of four major women writers – Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferré, Albalucía Angel, and Isabel Allende – and their short fiction within these changing literary and social contexts. Combining close textual analysis of their fiction with a consideration of the social, historical, and geographical contexts of literary production, this book is essential reading for students and scholars in Latin American studies, women’s studies, and comparative literature.

• Reihe: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Gruppen
• ISBN: 9780820461755
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2003
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York