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Author:

LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Title:

Rewriting womanhood : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903 / Nancy LaGreca.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 202 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Spanish American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--Latin America.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-193) and index.

Contents:

Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.

Summary:

"An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragán of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roqué of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis à vis the prescribed comportment for women during a conservative era"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

The Penn State Romance studies series

ISBN:

0271034394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780271034393 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0271034386 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271034386 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)242565122

LCCN:

2008034080

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)