Emma Staniland

Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region's socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity. Myth, exile and the female body are the central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the women writers analysed in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134615049
• Artikelnr.: 43976086

Autorenporträt

Emma Staniland is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests include Spanish American women's writing, Latino/a culture and literature with a particular focus on US writers with roots in the Hispanic Caribbean, genre studies, and feminist literary theory.