A place in the sun? : women writers in twentieth-century Cuba / Catherine Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Catherine, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cuban literature.

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

Cuban literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

vii, 247 pages : 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; [Atlantic Highlands] N.J. : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

Women have published a rich and varied selection of work in Cuba throughout the twentieth century. Their writings give us a crucial insight into the recent history of that country. In this book, Catherine Davies develops a sophisticated and theoretically informed feminist reading of works by authors such as Dulce Maria Loynaz and the poet Fina Garcia Marruz who developed their styles in the pre-Revolutionary period and black and mulatto poets such as Nancy Morejon, Georgina Herrera and Excilia Saldana from the post-1959 socialist era. The author reads these key texts in ways that show how women's writing can open up areas that resist alignment into the "grand narratives" -- of liberalism, Marxism -- that have usually dominated interpretations of Cuban culture. This is a major theoretical intervention into debates around representation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-240) and index.

ISBN:

1856495418

1856495426

OCLC:

37560886