The other mirror : women's narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995
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The other mirror : women's narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995
(Contributions to the study of world literature, no. 80)
Greenwood Press, 1997
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-197) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, have become international best sellers. The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed reactions: at the same time that the secondary status afforded women's narrative has come to be questioned in many academic circles, some authors are dissociating themselves from women's writing. The essays in this volume address these issues, providing a much needed contribution to the study of women's narrative.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Kristine Ibsen Displacement: Strategies of Transformation in Angeles Mastretta's Arrancame la vida by Danny J. Anderson Transgression in the Comic Mode: Angeles Mastretta and Her Cast of Liberated Aunts by Dianna Niebylski 'En donde van a florear?: Elena Poniatowska's La "Flor de Lis" and the Problematics of Identity by Jeanne Vaughn Light-Writing: Biography and Photography in Elena Poniatowska's Tinisima by Beth E. Jorgensen Tinisima: The Construction of the Self Through the Structures of Narrative Discourse by Charlotte Ekland Historiographic Metafiction or the Rewriting of History in Carmen Boullosa's Son vacas, somos puercos by Cynthia M. Tompkins Cross-Dressing and the Birth of a Nation: Duerme by Carmen Boullosa by Salvador Oropesa On Recipes, Reading, and Revolution: Postboom Parody in Como agua para chocolate by Kristine Ibsen Storytelling in Laura Esquivel's Como agua para chocolate by Yael Halevi The Sound of Silence: Voices of the Marginalized in Cristina Pacheco's Narrative by Linda Egan The Transformation of the Reader in Maria Luisa Puga's Panico o peligro by Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg Growing Up Jewish in Mexico: Sabina Berman's La bobe and Rosa Nissan's Novia que te vea by Darrell B. Lockhart Barbara Jacobs: Gendered Subjectivity and the Epistolary Essay by Maria Concepcion Bados-Ciria Selected Bibliography Index
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