Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing : Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics.

Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing : Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics.

This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purpose...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Cibreiro, Estrella
Other Authors: López, Francisca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012
Series:Routledge studies in contemporary literature.
Subjects:
Spanish literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Spanish American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Latin America.
Women and literature > Spain.
Gender identity in literature.
Ecofeminism in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • PART I Reshaping Gender by Rethinking Genre. Policing Social Injustice: Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Petra Delicado Series
  • Gender and Genre Issues in Dulce Chacón's Cielos de barro
  • Dialogue of Genres: Dystopian Buenos Aires in El niño pez (2004) by Lucía Puenzo
  • PART II Gender and Violence: Stories of Denunciation and Resistance. Writing for My Daughter, My Mother, My Grandmother: The Power of Words Against Women's Violence in Juana Castro's Del color de los ríos
  • La Llorona: A Cultural Myth of the Latin American Woman in the Twenty-first Century
  • Laura Restrepo's Delirio: A Refoundational Novel
  • PART III Women and the Environment. For a Better World: Alicia Puleo's Critical Ecofeminism
  • Environmental Crisis and the Male Culture in Marie Arana's Cellophane
  • The Ecological Dimension of Natalia Toledo Paz's Poetry
  • PART IV Global Politics from a Gendered Perspective. Toward a Theatre Without Borders: The Global Context of Itziar Pascual's Dramaturgy
  • In the Beginning there was Violence: Marvel Moreno's En Diciembre llegaban las brisas or the Genesis of Power
  • Transcending a Watery Border: Unsettled Bodies and In-Between Subjects in Por la vía de Tarifa
  • Writing an Engaged Novel in the Network Society: Belén Gopegui, Systemic Narratives, and Globalization.

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