Remembering Maternal Bodies : Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women's Writing / by B. Trigo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trigo, Benigno.

Series:

New Directions in Latino American Cultures, 2634-520X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

World Literature.

Literary Theory.

Local Subjects:

World Literature.

Literary Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and sometimes suicidal melancholy that haunts our culture and society is the result of a terrible fantasy about the way we become ourselves. This fantasy has a matricide at its core, and this matricide will continue to have its depressing effect on us as long as it remains in place and invisible. The authors showcased in this book make visible this fantasy and change it in their works in an effort to bring us out of our depression and melancholy.

Contents:

Transformative witnessing: Clarice Lispector's dark ties

Maternal jouissance: Elena Garro's Recuerdos

The mother tongue: Rosario Ferré's ec-centric writing

Accidents of chicana feminisms: Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Cherríe Moraga

Memoirs for the abject: Irene Vilar's Memoria

From revenge to redemption: Julia Alvarez's Open secrets.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.

ISBN:

9786611365592

9781281365590

1281365599

9781403983381

1403983380

OCLC:

567962868