ISBN:
9781137514615
,
1137514612
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 132 pages
,
23 cm
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Literatures of the Americas
Series Statement:
Palgrave pivot
DDC:
305.420972
Keywords:
Mexican literature Women authors
;
History and criticism
;
Motherhood in literature
;
Women Social conditions
;
Feminism
;
Sex role
;
Male domination (Social structure)
;
Maternité dans la littérature
;
Femmes - Mexique - Conditions sociales
;
Féminisme - Mexique
;
Rôle selon le sexe - Mexique
;
Domination masculine (Structure sociale)
;
Feminism
;
Male domination (Social structure)
;
Mexican literature - Women authors
;
Motherhood in literature
;
Sex role
;
Women - Social conditions
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Mexico
Abstract:
Grounded in postcolonial theory, explores the work of four Mexican woman writers to examine their use of motherhood as a political discursive position
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : motherhood as a feminist discursive space -- Desde las faldas de la madre/From underneath mother's skirt : Nellie Campobello (re)claims (single) motherhood and mothers as historians -- Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza : writing from the margins of word, class, and gender -- (Re)thinking woman(hood) : Sara Estela Ramírez, activity, and being -- Andrea Villarreal González : forming rebels/rebel forming -- Conclusion : being woman (within) patriarchy.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-127) and index
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