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Rewriting womanhood feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903
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Rewriting womanhood [electronic resource] : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903 / Nancy LaGreca.
ISBN
0271027142
9780271027142
0271034386 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271034394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780271034386 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271034393 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 202 p. )
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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 Roque 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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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Literature Foundation Collection
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-193) and index.
Contents
Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions
Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín 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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