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House/garden/nation : space, gender, and ethnicity in post-colonial Latin American literatures by women / Ileana Rodriguez ; translated by Robert Carr and Ileana Rodriguez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodríguez, Ileana.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature.
- Caribbean literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--Caribbean Area--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Feminism and literature--Caribbean Area--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Decolonization in literature.
- State, The, in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista's electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between the neo-liberal and marxist projects. It is such transitions that Ileana Rodríguez takes up here, unraveling their weave of gender, ethnicity, and nation as it is revealed in literature written by women. In House/Garden/Nation the narratives of five Centro-Caribbean writers illustrate these times of tr
- Contents:
- Transitions: Modernism/Modernity
- Teresa de la Parra: Hacienda/Nation - Quid pro quo
- Dulce Maria Loynaz: Garden/Nation - Parva domus: Magna quies
- Jean Rhys: Island/Nation - Hortus conclusus
- Simone Schwarz-Bart: Provision grounds/Nation - Et in arcadia ego
- Gioconda Belli: Urban house/Nation - Domi nostre.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612904301
- 9781282904309
- 1282904302
- 9780822381877
- 0822381877
- OCLC:
- 850214212
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