Maria Teresa Medeiros-Lichem

Reading the Feminine Voice in Latin American Women's Fiction

From Teresa de la Parra to Elena Poniatowska and Luisa Valenzuela

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Produktbeschreibung

From a comparative perspective and within the frameworks of feminist criticism and of Bakhtin's approach to language, María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem traces the evolution of Latin American women writers' participation in discourse. In this study of the theoretical and the fictional aspects of women's writing, Medeiros-Lichem reviews the leading trends of the Latin American feminist literary debate and the emergence of a feminine voice through language strategies in the fiction of nine innovative authors from the 1920s through the 1990s. The works of Elena Poniatowska and Luisa Valenzuela are presented within the context of their theoretical writings that construct a feminist aesthetics and reflect their artistic philosophy. This book shows how much of women's fiction has often provided a space for the revelation of the multiple layers of feminine experience and the inscription of unrecorded events from a social and political reality marked by fear and oppression.

Produktdetails

• Latin America 2
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 65665
• Neuausg.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780820456652
• ISBN-10: 0820456659
• Artikelnr.: 24471728

Autorenporträt

The Author: Bolivian-Austrian, with post-graduate studies at New York University and Universidad de Buenos Aires, María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem received her Ph.D. in comparative literary studies at Carleton University, Canada. She has taught at universities in New York, Ottawa, Innsbruck, and Vienna, where she currently lectures on Latin American studies. Besides scholarly articles in journals in Europe and South America, she is the author of El hombre y la tierra de Bolivia en dos novelas de Jaime Mendoza and Bolivien.

Rezensionen

"As María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem examines the successive stages marking the development of Latin American women's discourse in the twentieth century, she succeeds in establishing a model for its reading - a model based on the theoretical reflections, both implicit and explicit, of the writers themselves. At the same time, Medeiros-Lichem elaborates on the subversive potential of those writings by probing the ways in which the women's gendered vision uncovers areas of reality that are marked by oppression and fear. This book is an invaluable contribution to the Latin American literary field. It is built on a theoretical framework that is primarily feminist, although exclusively Latin American." (Z. Nelly Martínez, Professor of Latin American Literature and Theory, McGill University, Canada)