"The essays are clearly chosen to be different in style and content
from the 'malestream' canon, and the book as a whole is full of old
friends and welcome new surprises.... It will be of interest not
only to Latin Americanists, but also to the wider community
interested in non-European gender studies and cultural studies."
--Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University
Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on
essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of
this rich tradition, yet they have seldom received the respect they
merit and are often omitted entirely from anthologies.
This volume and its earlier companion, Reinterpreting the
Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th
Centuries, seek to remedy that neglect. This book collects
thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including
Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de
Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferre, Christina
Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska. All of the essays are here
translated into English for the first time, many by the same
scholars who wrote critical studies of the authors in the first
volume. Each author's work is also prefaced by a brief biographical
sketch.
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