Rewriting womanhood : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903

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Rewriting womanhood : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903

Nancy LaGreca

(Penn State Romance Studies series)

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-193) and index

Summary: "An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragán of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roqué of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis à vis the prescribed comportment for women during a conservative era"--Provided by publisher

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  • Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions
  • Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragán de Toscano's La hija del bandido
  • Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence
  • New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca Sol
  • Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century
  • Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman

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