Angeles Mastretta

Author : Jane Elizabeth Lavery
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855661179

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Angeles Mastretta by Jane Elizabeth Lavery Pdf

The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. The Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta [b. 1949], has only recently received serious critical attention largely because her work has been seen as 'popular' and therefore inappropriate for academic study. This first major work tobe published on Mastretta seeks to demonstrate the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. In the tradition of Post-Boom Latin American women's writing, Mastretta's texts are motivated by a desire to speak primarily of the silenced experiences and voices of women. Two of her novels, referential and testimonial in style, can be placed within the Mexican Revolutionary Novel tradition and explore the Revolutionary period and its consequences in the light of female experiences and perspectives. The hitherto unexplored themes of female sexuality and bodily erotics in Mastretta's texts are also considered in this volume. Her feminist works avoid facile simplifications: heterogeneous and dialogical, they interweave the historical and the fictional, the everyday and the fantastic. The originality of Mastretta's writing lies in its elusive postmodern ambiguities: shimmering surfacesare often interrupted by unexpected depths and proliferating meanings cannot be fully circumscribed by critical analysis. Jane Elizabeth Lavery lectures in Latin American Studies at the University of Kent.

Author : Angeles Mastretta
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613656326

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Tear This Heart Out by Angeles Mastretta Pdf

A love story set in the years after the Mexican revolution.

Author : Angeles Mastretta
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594480409

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Women with Big Eyes by Angeles Mastretta Pdf

The award winning author of Tear This Heart Out writes a compilation of deeply personal stories imbued with the human spirit, driven by different powerful women connected by desire. Each story in this "remarkable collection" (Kirkus Reviews) reveals a different woman, yet all are linked by a single thread: the strength of desire. Vibrant, sly, wise, earthy, and full of life, these are stories that mesmerize.

Author : Carol Elizabeth Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024326949

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Gender, Genre and Resistance in the Works of Lucha Corpi, Angeles Mastretta, and Claribel Alegría by Carol Elizabeth Pearson Pdf

Author : Angeles Mastretta
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : NWU:35556020996922

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Mexican Bolero by Angeles Mastretta Pdf

Author : Angeles Mastretta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Mexico
ISBN : 0099779617

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Lovesick by Angeles Mastretta Pdf

Emilia Sauir is the daughter of a Spanish mother and Mayan herbalist father. In the midst of the hardships of the Mexican rebellions of the early-20th-century, Emilia is torn between her love for two men: a childhood friend who runs off to fight, and a peace-loving doctor.

Author : Nuala Finnegan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3039105078

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Ambivalence, Modernity, Power by Nuala Finnegan Pdf

By incorporating a variety of critical approaches within a feminist framework, the author here argues that Mexican women writers participate in a crucial project of unsettling dominant discourses as they strive for new ways of capturing the ambivalent position of the Mexican women in their texts.

Author : Gabriella de Beer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292789548

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Contemporary Mexican Women Writers by Gabriella de Beer Pdf

Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in Contemporary Mexican Women Writers. De Beer takes a three-part approach to each writer. She opens with an essay that explores the writer's apprenticeship and discusses her major works. Next, she interviews each writer to learn about her background, writing, and view of herself and others. Finally, de Beer offers selections from the writer's work that have not been previously published in English translation. Each section concludes with a complete bibliographic listing of the writer's works and their English translations. These essays, interviews, and selections vividly recreate the experience of being with the writer and sharing her work, hearing her tell about and evaluate herself, and reading the words she has written. The book will be rewarding reading for everyone who enjoys fine writing.

Author : Emma Staniland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134614974

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Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature by Emma Staniland Pdf

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the articulation of a socially and personally viable female gendered identity, mindful of both the hegemonic discourses that constrain it, and the possibility of their deconstruction and reconfiguration. Myth, exile and the female body are the three central themes for understanding the personal, social and political aims of the Post-Boom women writers whose work is explored in this volume: Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Ángeles Mastretta, Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi and Zoé Valdés. Their adoption, and adaptation, of an originally eighteenth-century and European literary genre is seen here to reshape the global canon as much as it works to reshape our understanding of gendered identities as socially constructed, culturally contingent, and open-ended.

Author : Jane Elizabeth Lavery
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1846153662

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A ́ngeles Mastretta by Jane Elizabeth Lavery Pdf

The Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta (b. 1949), has only recently received serious critical attention largely because her work has been seen as 'popular' and therefore inappropriate for academic study. This first major work to be published on Mastretta seeks to demonstrate the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. In the tradition of Post-Boom Latin American women's writing, Mastretta's texts are motivated by a desire to speak primarily of the silenced experiences and voices of women. Two of her novels, referential and testimonial in style, can be placed within the Mexican Revolutionary Novel tradition and explore the Revolutionary period and its consequences in the light of female experiences and perspectives. The hitherto unexplored themes of female sexuality and bodily erotics in Mastretta's texts are also considered in this volume. Her feminist works avoid facile simplifications: heterogeneous and dialogical, they interweave the historical and the fictional, the everyday and the fantastic. The originality of Mastretta's writing lies in its elusive postmodern ambiguities: shimmering surfaces are often interrupted by unexpected depths and proliferating meanings cannot be fully circumscribed by critical analysis. Jane Elizabeth Lavery lectures in Latin American Studies at the University of Kent.

Author : Kathy S. Leonard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810866607

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Latin American Women Writers by Kathy S. Leonard Pdf

There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short stories, novels, novellas, autobiographies, and biographies) by Latin American women writers has increased significantly in the last ten to fifteen years. To address the lack of bibliographic resources, Kathy Leonard has compiled Latin American Women Writers: A Resource Guide to Titles in English. This reference includes all forms of narrative-short story, autobiography, novel, novel excerpt, and others-by Latin American women dating from 1898 to 2007. More than 3,000 individual titles are included by more than 500 authors. This includes nearly 200 anthologies, more than 100 autobiographies/biographies or other narrative, and almost 250 novels written by more than 100 authors from 16 different countries. For the purposes of this bibliography, authors who were born in Latin America and either continue to live there or have immigrated to the United States are included. Also, titles of pieces are listed as originally written, in either Spanish or Portuguese. If the book was originally written in English, a phrase to that effect is included, to better reflect the linguistic diversity of narrative currently being published. This volume contains seven indexes: Authors by Country of Origin, Authors/Titles of Work, Titles of Work/Authors, Autobiographies/Biographies and Other Narrative, Anthologies, Novels and Novellas in Alphabetical Order by Author, and Novels and Novellas by Authors' Country of Origin. Reflecting the increase in literary production and the facilitation of materials, this volume contains a comprehensive listing of narrative pieces in English by Latin American women writers not found in any other single volume currently on the market. This work of reference will be of special interest to scholars, students, and instructors interested in narrative works in English by Latin American women authors. It will also help expose new generations of readers to the highly creative and diverse literature being produced by these writers.

Author : María Elena de Valdés
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292715900

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The Shattered Mirror by María Elena de Valdés Pdf

Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico. María Elena de Valdés enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernández, María Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration—without reprobation—of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.

Author : Jean Franco
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 082232248X

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Critical Passions by Jean Franco Pdf

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

Author : riccardo fesce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781409236153

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soul physiology by riccardo fesce Pdf

neurons and their metaphysical side-effects: from a rigorous discussion of the properties of neurons and brain to the mechanisms by which this grayish jelly generates and explains emotional life, conscience, thought, our sense of beauty and justice, our need for infinityand almost all that we love calling "soul"... the book can be browsed at http://www.neuroworld.it/soul

Author : Brett Josef Grubisic,Gisèle M. Baxter,Tara Lee
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771120562

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Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase by Brett Josef Grubisic,Gisèle M. Baxter,Tara Lee Pdf

What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility. Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and the work of Margaret Atwood and William Gibson (to name a few), this book examines dystopian literature produced by North American authors between the signing of NAFTA (1994) and the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (2011). As the texts illustrate, awareness of and deep concern about perceived vulnerabilities—ends of water, oil, food, capitalism, empires, stable climates, ways of life, non-human species, and entire human civilizations—have become central to public discourseover the same period. By asking questions such as “What are the distinctive qualities of post-NAFTA North American dystopian literature?” and “What does this literature reflect about the tensions and contradictions of the inchoate continental community of North America?” Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase serves to resituate dystopian writing within a particular geo-social setting and introduce a productive means to understand both North American dystopian writing and its relevant engagements with a restricted, mapped reality.