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This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection
of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions
to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary
perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical study of a
representative selection of Latin American women writers who have
made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a
wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women
have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won
the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical
attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area;
others have made such telling contributions to particular strands
of literature that their names are immediately evocative of
specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with
testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known
for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de
Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite
their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose
fiction respectively. The distinctiveness of this volume lies in
its attention to writers from widely differing historical and
social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted
by the authors. Brigida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature
and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include
Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond, El discurso de Gertrudis
Gomez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad; and Discursos
Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema Lloyd Hughes Davies
teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His
publications include Isabel Allende, La casa de los espiritus and
Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and
Fiction.
These representative works by early Spanish American women writers
are the first to be made available in a bilingual edition. The
texts provide an overview of writers from the Colonial period to
the nineteenth century. They include an exploration account, the
vida of a mystic, an autobiography of a transvestite, poetry by Sor
Juana Ins de la Cruz, essays, and two novellas. While all of the
writers shared being white and literate, their life experiences
were extremely diverse, and themes of repression, both personal and
political, permeate the collection. Scott's introduction emphasises
the networks of friendship and support among women writers that
developed, especially in the nineteenth century. The new
translations make many of these texts available to English-speaking
readers for the first time.
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