Rosario Castellanos Feminist Poetics

Author : Rosario Castellanos
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292789890

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A Rosario Castellanos Reader by Rosario Castellanos Pdf

Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the first time, allowing English-speaking readers to see the depth and range of Castellanos' work. In her introductory essay, "Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs," Maureen Ahern presents the first comprehensive study of Castellanos' work as a sign or signifying system. This approach through contemporary semiotic theory unites literary criticism and translation as an integral semiotic process. Ahern reveals how Castellanos integrated women's images, bodies, voices, and texts to feminize her discourse and create a plurality of new signs/messages about women in Mexico. Describing this process in The Eternal Feminine, Castellanos observes, "...it's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves."

Author : Rosario Castellanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820312401

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Another Way to be by Rosario Castellanos Pdf

Selections of poetry, fiction, and essays by the Mexican poet, novelist, journalist, philosopher and diplomat (1925-1974). Edited, translated, and introduced by Myralyn F. Allgood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Norma Alarcón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Feminist poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041086773

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Rosario Castellanos' Feminist Poetics by Norma Alarcón Pdf

Author : Angel Flores,Kate Flores
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0935312544

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Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present by Angel Flores,Kate Flores Pdf

Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Italian volumes represent their respective countries; the Hispanic volume includes poems from the many Spanish-speaking nations; and the Hebrew volume encompasses writing in Hebrew from around the world. The poems are presented in their original languages alongside English translations. Each volume includes an introduction, placing the poetry in historical and aesthetic perspective, and full biographical and bibliographical notes on the poets.

Author : Rosario Castellanos
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014118003X

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The Book of Lamentations by Rosario Castellanos Pdf

Set in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by European invaders five hundred years ago. With the panoramic sweep of a Diego Rivera mural, the novel weaves together dozens of plot lines, perspectives, and characters. Blending a wealth of historical information and local detail with a profound understanding of the complex relationship between victim and tormentor, Castellanos captures the ambiguities that underlie all struggles for power. A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction from Mexico’s greatest twentieth-century woman writer, The Book of Lamentations was translated with an afterword by Ester Allen and introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto.

Author : Rosario Castellanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106010931225

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The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos by Rosario Castellanos Pdf

Author : Rosario Castellanos
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015014330578

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Meditation on the Threshold by Rosario Castellanos Pdf

Castellanos was widely considered Mexico's foremost woman poet. This is anthology of her work in the original Spanish with English translation on facing pages. Palley's introduction provides background and critical analysis of the work.

Author : KAREN. PENA
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367604183

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Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual by KAREN. PENA Pdf

Gabriela Mistral, Cecília Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos were three of the most important Latin American women writers of the 20th century. Prolific, contentious, and widely read and discussed from Spanish America to Brazil, they pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be women poets from the 1920s to the 1970s. Karen Peña explores how these three writers used poetry to oppose patriarchal discourse on topics ranging from marginalized peoples to issues of gender and sexuality. Poetry was a means for them to redefine their own feminized space, however difficult or odd it could turn out to be. In this study, we see how Gabriela Mistral travels to Mexico and finds the countryside a way to declare her own queer identity; many years later we find her re-imagining a frightening feminine space where she contests the terrible fate of Greek heroines. In Cecília Meireles, we discover a writer at odds with her femininity, who declares herself androgynous. Like Mistral, she too travelled extensively, and we see her arguing against the wealth of capitalism and industrialization when she travels to the United States in 1940. Rosario Castellanos straightforwardly argues for women's procreative rights in almost all of her poetry. And in an illuminating re-reading of Mistral, Castellanos allows the shadow of her predecessor to vocalize the tragedies of the inability to control woman's reproductive choices. Book jacket.

Author : Elena Poniatowska,Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031111778

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The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance by Elena Poniatowska,Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez Pdf

This book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven transformational figures for Mexican feminism. This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, and Nellie Campobello, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos, and Pita Amor, forerunner writers and poets whose works laid a path for Mexican women writers in the later twentieth century. Poniatowska’s essays discuss their fervent activity, interactions with other prominent figures, details and intricacies about their specific works, their scandalous and irreverent activities to draw attention to their craft, and specific revelations about their lives. The extensive critical introduction surveys the early feminist movement and Mexican cultural history, explores how Mexico became a more closed society by the mid-twentieth century, and suggests further reading and films. This book will be of interest both to the general reader and to scholars interested in feminist/gender studies, Mexican literary and cultural studies, Latin American women writers, the cultural renaissance, translation, and film studies.

Author : O. Classe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1884964362

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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L by O. Classe Pdf

Author : Rosario Castellanos
Publisher : Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Poetry
ISBN : NWU:35556037324381

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Poesía no eres tú by Rosario Castellanos Pdf

"Se singulariza por la propension a descender al interior de su conciencia en busca de emociones que, convertidas en canto o en elegia, suelen aflorar en descarnados versos."

Author : Ronald J. Friis
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0838754929

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José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows by Ronald J. Friis Pdf

"Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is Mexico's foremost living poet, and a major figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows examines the dynamic of literary influence and the question of literary origins in Pacheco's first six books of poetry (1960s to mid-1980s). Ronald J. Friis appropriates Bloom's theory of poetic influence to investigate how Pacheco deploys literary allusions and intertextual references as a means of decentering the traditional centrality of the figure of the author. The poets of the shadows to which the title refers include Pacheco's precursors from prior generations of Mexican and Latin American literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, and Octavio Paz."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Héctor Calderón,José David Saldívar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822382355

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Criticism in the Borderlands by Héctor Calderón,José David Saldívar Pdf

This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist. The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the “canon”; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and “theory” and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included. By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature. Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Héctor Calderón, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, José E. Limón, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ordóñez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Rosaura Sánchez, Roberto Trujillo

Author : Rosario Castellanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029101303

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City of Kings by Rosario Castellanos Pdf

Written in 1960, these stories unfold in the Mexican state of Chiapas—the later site of the Zapatista uprising, and the author addresses controversial questions of power, class, race, and language, giving insight into the historical background of a political struggle still going on today. The complex relationship of conquerors and conquered is explored with masterful writing that earned Rosario Castellanos a permanent place in the literary history of Mexican authors.

Author : Debra A. Castillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Feminist criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106014555111

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Talking Back by Debra A. Castillo Pdf

Exploring the use of key authorial strategies in selected literary and theoretical texts by women from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, as well as the US, Castillo (Romance studies, Cornell U.) illuminates the ongoing process of constructing a feminist criticism that can incorporate the diverse, shifting, and often contradictory voices of Latin American feminist writers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR