03965oam 2200637I 450 991079764230332120230808212308.01-134-61504-31-315-88609-X1-134-61497-710.4324/9781315886091(CKB)3710000000483630(EBL)4014461(SSID)ssj0001555272(PQKBManifestationID)16177861(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001555272(PQKBWorkID)12368895(PQKB)10669077(MiAaPQ)EBC4014461(MiAaPQ)EBC4014326(OCoLC)922966059(EXLCZ)99371000000048363020180706d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrGender and the self in Latin American literature /Emma StanilandNew York N.Y. ;Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (230 pages)Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature ;27Description based upon print version of record.Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Introduction -- PART I: Construction: Archetype, Fairy Tale, Myth: Chapter 1 Como agua para chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate / by Laura Esquivel (1989) -- Chapter 2 Eva Luna / by Isabel Allende (1987) -- PART II: Deconstruction: Exile and Gender: Chapter 3 La nave de los locos/The Ship of Fools / by Cristina Peri Rossi (1984) -- Chapter 4 En breve cárcel/Certificate of Absence / by Sylvia Molloy (1981) -- PART III: Reconstruction: The Female Body and Agency: Chapter 5 Arráncame la vida/Tear This Heart Out (1985) / by Ángeles Mastretta (1985) -- Chapter 6 La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada / by Zoé Valdés (1995)This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration.Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended.Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;27.Spanish American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismSpanish American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismWomen in literatureSex role in literatureSelf in literatureSpanish American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Spanish American fictionHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Sex role in literature.Self in literature.863/.6099287098Staniland Emma.1506260MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797642303321Gender and the self in Latin American literature3736415UNINA