Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature (Paperback)

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, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration. Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Angeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoe Valdes. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2016
Authors:	Emma Staniland
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-54767-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-138-54767-0
Barcode:	9781138547674

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