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Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything--in
society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature,
where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. To
women were left the pale love stories that conducted appropriate
partners in proper settings to socially acceptable outcomes. So it
was in Latin America well into the twentieth century.
The stories in this volume announce a dramatic change, a
transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of
the role--even the nature--of women in this most "feminine"
literary tradition. These stories, by exciting new writers as well
as by the renowned, are "violations" of the most exhilarating sort,
flouting conventions of language, behavior, subject matter, and
style to remake and widen our once-narrow view of the literary
landscape of Latin America. Here women writers from Mexico and
Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, Cuba, Peru, and Uruguay break
social, religious, political, and sexual barriers in fiction that
is by turns erotic, satirical, shocking, tragic--and always, in its
remapping of literary boundaries, deeply and richly entertaining.
Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything--in
society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature,
where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. To
women were left the pale love stories that conducted appropriate
partners in proper settings to socially acceptable outcomes. So it
was in Latin America well into the twentieth century.
The stories in this volume announce a dramatic change, a
transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of
the role--even the nature--of women in this most "feminine"
literary tradition. These stories, by exciting new writers as well
as by the renowned, are "violations" of the most exhilarating sort,
flouting conventions of language, behavior, subject matter, and
style to remake and widen our once-narrow view of the literary
landscape of Latin America. Here women writers from Mexico and
Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, Cuba, Peru, and Uruguay break
social, religious, political, and sexual barriers in fiction that
is by turns erotic, satirical, shocking, tragic--and always, in its
remapping of literary boundaries, deeply and richly entertaining.
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