1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807758703321

Autore

Kaminsky Amy K

Titolo

Reading the body politic : feminist criticism and Latin American women writers / / Amy K. Kaminsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8380-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages)

Disciplina

860.9/9287/098

Soggetti

Feminist literary criticism - Latin America

Latin American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Latin American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Translating Gender; 2 Gender as Category and Feminism as Strategy in Latin American Literary Analysis; 3 The Presence in Absence of Exile; 4 Body/Politics: Alicia Partnoy's The Little School; 5 Gaby Brimmer: A Life in Three Voices; 6 The Uses and Limits of Foreign Feminist Theory: Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir; 7 Sylvia Molloy's Lesbian Cartographies: Body, Text, and Geography; 8 Cristina Peri Rossi and the Question of Lesbian Presence; Afterword: In the Realm of the Real; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices.