Brígida M. Pastor & Lloyd Hughes Davies 
A Companion to Latin American Women Writers [PDF ebook] 

This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles.


This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area; others have made such telling contributions to particular strands of literature that their names are immediately evocative of specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose fiction respectively.

The distinctiveness of this volume lies in its attention to writers from widely differing historical and social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted by the authors.


Brígida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include
Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond,
El discurso de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad; and
Discursos Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema


Lloyd Hughes Davies teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His publications include
Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus and
Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction.

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [1648/51?-1695] – Nina Scott

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda [1814-1873] – Brígida M. Pastor

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) – Joanne Crow

Alfonsina Storni [1892-1938] – Joanna Evans

Silvina Ocampo [1903?-1993] – Fiona J. Mackintosh

Clarice Lispector [1920-1977] – Stephen M. Hart

Rosario Castellanos [1925-1974] – Nuala Finnegan

Elena Poniatowska [1933- ] – Teresa Hurley

Alejandra Pizarnik [1936-1972] – John Mc Culloch

Luisa Valenzuela [1938- ] – Sharon Magnarelli

Isabel Allende [1942- ] – Philip Swanson

Rosario Ferré [1942- ] – Denise L. Dupont

Laura Esquivel [1950- ] – Claire Taylor

Laura Restrepo [1950- ] –

Conclusion

Bibliography

Over de auteur

STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London.