Between civilization & barbarism : women, nation, and literary culture in modern Argentina / Francine Masiello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masiello, Francine.

Series:

Engendering Latin America ; v. 2.

Engendering Latin America ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Argentine literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Argentine literature.

Argentine literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Argentine literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature.

Women.

Intellectual life.

Civilization.

Argentine literature--Women authors.

Argentina--Civilization--19th century.

Argentina.

Argentina--Civilization--20th century.

Women--Argentina--Intellectual life.

Women--Argentina--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Literature and society--Argentina.

Literature and society.

Women and literature--Argentina.

Women in literature.

Women--Intellectual life.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 251 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Between civilization and barbarism.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Summary:

"Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the "civilizing" agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of barbarism to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the neatly outlined roles assigned them."--BOOK JACKET. "Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis. She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working classes."--BOOK JACKET. "Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises' or crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women's literature and illuminating the role of women informing the culture of present-day Argentina."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction (starting p. 1)

Pt. I The Years of Confrontation

Between Civilization and Barbarism: Gendered Struggles in the Nineteenth Century (starting p. 17)

Angels in the Argentine House: The Women's Debate on Domestic Life, Female Education, and Writing (starting p. 53)

Pt. II Consolidating the Nation-State

Science and Sentimentality: The Female Subject in Modernity (starting p. 83)

The Traffic in Women: Prostitutes, Money, and Narration (starting p. 111)

Pt. III Modernity and the Nationalist Revival

Desiring Women: The Female Presence and Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century (starting p. 139)

"Dona Juana Pueblo" Speaks on Narration, Labor, and Commodity Culture (starting p. 165)

Notes (starting p. 201)

Works Cited (starting p. 227)

Index (starting p. 245)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index.

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Winner, 1992

Other Format:

Online version: Masiello, Francine. Between civilization & barbarism.

ISBN:

080323158X

9780803231580

OCLC:

25165544

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