ISBN:
9781781387979
Language:
English
,
Spanish
,
Portuguese
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 321 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
Series Statement:
Liverpool Latin American studies new series, 7
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
305.4209809034
Keywords:
Latin American literature History and criticism
;
Women's rights History
;
Women's rights ; Latin America ; History
;
Latin American literature ; History and criticism
;
Latin America ; History ; Wars of Independence, 1806-1830
;
Latin America History Wars of Independence, 1806-1830
Abstract:
The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of both published and unpublished writings, South American Independence reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence
Abstract:
South American independence : war, liberty, gender, text -- Figuring out the feminine : the writings of Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) -- Troped out of history : gender slippage and woman in the poetry of Andres Bello (1781-1865) -- Competing masculinities and political discourse : the writings of Esteban Echeverria (1805-51) -- Satirised woman and counter-strategies -- Women, war and Spanish American independence -- Women, letter-writing and the wars of independence in Chile -- Gender, patriotism and social capital : Josefa Acevedo and Mercedes Marin -- Gender and revolution in southern Brazil : restitching the Farroupilha Revolt in the works of Delfina Benigna da Cunha and Ana de Barandas -- Juana Manso (1819-75) : women in history -- Conclusions: South America, gender, politics, text
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017)
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