The Shattered Mirror Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.1998
Verlag
Univ of Chicago behalf of University of TexasSeitenzahl
296
Maße (L/B/H)
22.7/15.2/3.3 cm
Gewicht
812 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-292-71590-5
Popular images of women in Mexico-conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television-were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico.
MarÍa Elena de ValdÉs enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana InÉs de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina HernÁndez, MarÍa Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration-without reprobation-of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.
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