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The end of the twentieth century witnessed a « boom in the
production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women's
writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers
is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the « post-boom«
period of Latin American literary history, a phenomenon that has
been influenced in turn by the burgeoning development of a number
of women's movements on the continent. Within this « boom« , the
short story has become an increasingly popular genre amongst women
writers. This book considers the location(s) of four major women
writers - Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferre, Albalucia Angel, and
Isabel Allende - and their short fiction within these changing
literary and social contexts. Combining close textual analysis of
their fiction with a consideration of the social, historical, and
geographical contexts of literary production, this book is
essential reading for students and scholars in Latin American
studies, women's studies, and comparative literature.
This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin
America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin
American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid
and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in
large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? How do they engage
with the enduring myths about the region perpetuated by their
imperial/ist predecessors? And, if not journeys of expansion or
exploration, on precisely what kinds of travel do their own
journeys rest? Drawing on ideas from many disciplines, including
anthropology, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies,
this book considers contemporary journey narratives from Latin
America through a series of case studies concerning four key sites
of travel, each of which engenders particular forms of travel and
travel narrative: Patagonia, the Andes, Mexico and the Mexico-US
border. This book thus explores the complex practice and
representation of journeys in the region by writers including Luis
Sepulveda, Mempo Giardinelli, Andres Ruggeri, Ana Garcia Bergua,
Silvia Molina, Maria Luisa Puga, Ruben Martinez and Luis Alberto
Urrea. In doing so, it explores questions relating to mobility,
representation, and globalization that are of widespread concern
across the world today."
This open access book discusses the relationship between
periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires
into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of
tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography
of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of
economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution.
Notwithstanding their vogue, popularity, reach, and close
affiliations to commerce and state over several decades, magazines
have not received any sustained critical attention in the
scholarship on that period. This book aims to redress that
oversight. It argues that illustrated magazines like Mexican
Folkways (1925-1937) and Mexico This Month (1955-1971) offer rich
and compelling materials in that regard, not only as unique tools
for interrogating the ramifications of tourism on the country's
reconstruction, but as autonomous objects of study that form a
vital if complex part of Mexico's visual culture.
This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin
America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin
American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid
and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in
large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? How do they engage
with the enduring myths about the region perpetuated by their
imperial/ist predecessors? And, if not journeys of expansion or
exploration, on precisely what kinds of 'travel' do their own
journeys rest? Drawing on ideas from many disciplines, including
anthropology, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural studies,
this book considers contemporary journey narratives from Latin
America through a series of case studies concerning four key sites
of travel, each of which engenders particular forms of travel and
travel narrative: Patagonia, the Andes, Mexico and the Mexico-US
border. This book thus explores the complex practice and
representation of journeys in the region by writers including Luis
Sepulveda, Mempo Giardinelli, Andres Ruggeri, Ana Garcia Bergua,
Silvia Molina, Maria Luisa Puga, Ruben Martinez and Luis Alberto
Urrea. In doing so, it explores questions relating to mobility,
representation, and globalization that are of widespread concern
across the world today."
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