Women's Writing in Colombia : An Alternative History / by Cherilyn Elston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elston, Cherilyn., Author.

Series:

Breaking Feminist Waves, 2945-7009

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Sex.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Latin American Culture.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Latin American Culture.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women's writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country's history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture. .

Contents:

1 Introduction - Modernity's Rebel Daughters

2 La Violencia, Postmodernity and Feminism: the nonsynchronicity of Albalucía Ángel

3 "Ni Engels, ni Freud, ni Reich": Marvel Moreno as Boom/post-Boom Writer

4 Una voz antifeminista? María Mercedes Carranza, Public Intellectual and "Postmodern" Poet

5 Testimonio in a Post-revolutionary Era: the Writings of Female Ex-combatants

6 Sexual Difference in Times of War: the Poetry of Piedad Morales and the Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres

7 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9783319432618

3319432613