Rewriting womanhood : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903 / Nancy LaGreca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- author.

, Penn State University Libraries, Author.

Contributor:

funder.

Series:

Penn State Romance studies.

The Penn State Romance studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish American literature.

Spanish American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--Latin America.

Feminism and literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 202 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

LaGreca Nancy : Nancy LaGreca is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma.Nancy LaGreca is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma.

Summary:

In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903) by Ana Roqué (Puerto Rico; 1853–1933). While these women were both acclaimed and critiqued in their day, they have been largely overlooked by contemporary mainstream criticism. Detailed enough for experts yet accessible to undergraduates, graduate students, and the general reader, Rewriting Womanhood provides ample historical context for understanding the key women’s issues of nineteenth-century Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico; clear definitions of the psychoanalytic theories used to unearth the rewriting of the female self; and in-depth literary analyses of the feminine agency that Barragán, Cabello, and Roqué highlight in their fiction. Rewriting Womanhood reaffirms the value of three women novelists who wished to broaden the ruling-class definition of woman as mother and wife to include woman as individual for a modern era. As such, it is an important contribution to women’s studies, nineteenth-century Hispanic studies, and sexuality and gender studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Women’s Imagined Roles in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Seclusion in the Midst of Progress and Early Feminist Reactions

2 Coming of Age(ncy): Refugio Barragán de Toscano’s La hija del bandido

3 Women in Peru: National and Private Struggles for Independence

4 New Models for New Women: Rethinking Cinderella’s Virtues and Humanizing the Stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera’s Blanca Sol

5 Women as Body in Puerto Rico: Medicine, Morality, and Institutionalizations of Sexual Oppression in the Long Nineteenth Century

6 Sexual Agency in Ana Roqué’s Luz y sombra: A Subversion of the Essentialized Woman

Conclusions

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-193) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271027142

0271027142

9780271036519

0271036516

OCLC:

404976811