Reading the body politic : feminist criticism and Latin American women writers / Amy K. Kaminsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaminsky, Amy K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism--Latin America.

Feminist literary criticism.

Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Latin American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Feminist criticism and Latin American women writers

Feminist criticism and Latin American women writers.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Translating Gender; 2 Gender as Category and Feminism as Strategy in Latin American Literary Analysis; 3 The Presence in Absence of Exile; 4 Body/Politics: Alicia Partnoy's The Little School; 5 Gaby Brimmer: A Life in Three Voices; 6 The Uses and Limits of Foreign Feminist Theory: Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir; 7 Sylvia Molloy's Lesbian Cartographies: Body, Text, and Geography; 8 Cristina Peri Rossi and the Question of Lesbian Presence; Afterword: In the Realm of the Real; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-156) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8380-8

OCLC:

476093085