Prospero's daughter : the prose of Rosario Castellanos
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Prospero's daughter : the prose of Rosario Castellanos
（The Texas Pan American series）
University of Texas Press, 1995
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas. O'Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos' first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican indigenismo establishes the context for individual chapters on Castellanos' narratives of ethnic conflict (the novels Balun Canan and Oficio de tinieblas and the short stories of Ciudad Real). In further chapters O'Connell reads Los convidados de agosto, Album de familia, and Castellanos' four collections of essays as developments of her feminist social analysis.
Table of Contents
* Preface * Acknowledgments *1. Prospero's Daughter *2. Castellanos as Resisting Reader: Sobre cultura femenina *3. Castellanos and Indigenismo in Mexico *4. Balun Canan as Palimpsest *5. Ciudad Real: The Pitfalls of Indigenista Consciousness *6. Versions of History in Oficio de tinieblas *7. "Buceando cada vez mas hondo ...": The Dangerous Memory of Women's Lives *8. Public Writing, Public Reading: Rosario Castellanos as Essayist * Afterword * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780292760424
Description
A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas.
O'Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos' first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican indigenismo establishes the context for individual chapters on Castellanos' narratives of ethnic conflict (the novels Balun Canan and Oficio de tinieblas and the short stories of Ciudad Real). In further chapters O'Connell reads Los convidados de agosto,Album de familia, and Castellanos' four collections of essays as developments of her feminist social analysis.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Prospero's Daughter
2. Castellanos as Resisting Reader: Sobre cultura femenina
3. Castellanos and Indigenismo in Mexico
4. Balun Canan as Palimpsest
5. Ciudad Real: The Pitfalls of Indigenista Consciousness
6. Versions of History in Oficio de tinieblas
7. "Buceando cada vez mas hondo ...": The Dangerous Memory of Women's Lives
8. Public Writing, Public Reading: Rosario Castellanos as Essayist
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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