LEADER 03965oam 2200637I 450 001 9910797642303321 005 20230808212308.0 010 $a1-134-61504-3 010 $a1-315-88609-X 010 $a1-134-61497-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315886091 035 $a(CKB)3710000000483630 035 $a(EBL)4014461 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001555272 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16177861 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001555272 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12368895 035 $a(PQKB)10669077 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4014461 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4014326 035 $a(OCoLC)922966059 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000483630 100 $a20180706d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGender and the self in Latin American literature /$fEmma Staniland 210 1$aNew York N.Y. ;$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (230 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature ;$v27 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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) 330 $aThis book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region?s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration.Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended. 410 0$aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v27. 606 $aSpanish American fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSpanish American fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 615 0$aSpanish American fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSpanish American fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a863/.6099287098 700 $aStaniland$b Emma.$01506260 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797642303321 996 $aGender and the self in Latin American literature$93736415 997 $aUNINA