Changing women, changing nation : female agency, nationhood, and identity in trans-Salvadoran narratives / Yajaira M. Padilla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Padilla, Yajaira M.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salvadoran fiction--History and criticism.

Salvadoran fiction.

Revolutionary literature, Salvadoran--History and criticism.

Revolutionary literature, Salvadoran.

Women in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

American fiction--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

El Salvador--In literature.

El Salvador.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Changing Women, Changing Nation explores the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives during the span of the last thirty years. This exploration covers Salvadoran texts produced during El Salvador's civil war (1980–1992) and the current postwar period, as well as US-Salvadoran works of the last two decades that engage the topic of migration and second-generation ethnic incorporation into the United States. Rather than think of these two sets of texts as constituting separate literatures, Yajaira M. Padilla conceives of them as part of the same corpus, what she calls "trans-Salvadoran narratives"—works that dialogue with each other and draw attention to El Salvador's burgeoning transnational reality. Through depictions of women in trans-Salvadoran narratives, Padilla elucidates a "story" of female agency and nationhood that extends beyond El Salvador's national borders and imaginings.

Contents:

Campesina as nation : feminine resistance and power in Manlio Argueta's Un día en la vida and Cuzcatlán : donde bate la mar del sur

Making militants and mothers : rethinking the image of the guerillera in women's revolutionary testimonios

Setting la diabla free : women, violence, and the struggle for representation in postwar El Salvador

Hermanas lejanas : female immigrant subjectivities and the politics of voice in the Salvadoran transnational community

Salvadoran-American sleuthing in the US south and beyond : Marcos McPeek Villatoro's Romilia Chacón mystery series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438442785

1438442785

9781461911104

1461911109

OCLC:

811140068