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Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196659
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521476429
Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.
Author : Meri Knaster
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008694575
Author : Stacey Schlau
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816551132
Women's participation, both formal and informal, in the creation of what we now call Spanish America is reflected in its literary legacy. Stacey Schlau examines what women from a wide spectrum of classes and races have to say about the societies in which they lived and their place in them. Schlau has written the first book to study a historical selection of Spanish American women's writings with an emphasis on social and political themes. Through their words, she offers an alternative vision of the development of narrative genres—critical, fictional, and testimonial—from colonial times to the present. The authors considered here represent the chronological yet nonlinear development of women's narrative. They include Teresa Romero Zapata, accused before the Inquisition of being a false visionary; Inés Suárez, nun and writer of spiritual autobiography; Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, author of an indigenist historical romance; Magda Portal, whose biography of Flora Tristán furthered her own political agenda; Dora Alonso, who wrote revolutionary children's books; Domitila Barrios de Chungara, political leader and organizer; Elvira Orphée, whose novel unpacks the psychology of the torturer; and several others who address social and political struggles that continue to the present day. Although the writers treated here may seem to have little in common, all sought to maneuver through institutions and systems and insert themselves into public life by using the written word, often through the appropriation and modification of mainstream genres. In examining how these authors stretched the boundaries of genre to create a multiplicity of hybrid forms, Schlau reveals points of convergence in the narrative tradition of challenging established political and social structures. Outlining the shape of this literary tradition, she introduces us to a host of neglected voices, as well as examining better-known ones, who demonstrate that for women, simply writing can be a political act.
Author : Margarita R. Ochoa,Sara V. Guengerich
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806169781
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within. Cacicas feature far and wide in the history of Spanish America, as female governors and tribute collectors and as relatives of ruling caciques—or their destitute widows. They played a crucial role in the establishment and success of Spanish rule, but were also instrumental in colonial natives’ resistance and self-definition. In this volume, noted scholars uncover the history of colonial cacicas, moving beyond anecdotes of individuals in Spanish America. Their work focuses on the evolution of indigenous leadership, particularly the lineage and succession of these positions in different regions, through the lens of native women’s political activism. Such activism might mean the intervention of cacicas in the economic, familial, and religious realms or their participation in official and unofficial matters of governance. The authors explore the role of such personal authority and political influence across a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic range—in patterns of succession, the settling of frontier regions, interethnic relations and the importance of purity of blood, gender and family dynamics, legal and marital strategies for defending communities, and the continuation of indigenous governance. This volume showcases colonial cacicas as historical subjects who constructed their consciousness around their place, whether symbolic or geographic, and articulated their own unique identities. It expands our understanding of the significant influence these women exerted—within but also well beyond the native communities of Spanish America.
Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521349249
The complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale, authoritative survey of Latin America's unique historical experience from the first contacts between the native American Indians and Europeans to the present day. Colonial Spanish America is a selection of chapters from volumes I and II brought together to provide a continuous history of the Spanish Empire in America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The first three chapters deal with conquest and settlement and relations between Spain and its American Empire; the final six with urban development, mining, rural economy and society, including the formation of the hacienda, the internal economy, and the impact of Spanish rule on Indian societies. Bibliographical essays are included for all chapters. The book will be a valuable text for both students and teachers of Latin American history.
Author : Kimberly Gauderman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292779938
What did it mean to be a woman in colonial Spanish America? Given the many advances in women's rights since the nineteenth century, we might assume that colonial women had few rights and were fully subordinated to male authority in the family and in society—but we'd be wrong. In this provocative study, Kimberly Gauderman undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito. Gauderman draws on records of criminal and civil proceedings, notarial records, and city council records to reveal women's use of legal and extra-legal means to achieve personal and economic goals; their often successful attempts to confront men's physical violence, adultery, lack of financial support, and broken promises of marriage; women's control over property; and their participation in the local, interregional, and international economies. This research clearly demonstrates that authority in colonial society was less hierarchical and more decentralized than the patriarchal model suggests, which gave women substantial control over economic and social resources.
Author : Patricia Garcia,Teresa López-Pellisa
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835093
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers’ works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
Author : Kathleen Ann Myers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195348095
This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624667527
"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin American history more broadly. Within these pages are captivating stories of enslaved African and indigenous women who protest abuse; of women who defend themselves from charges of witchcraft, cross-dressing, and infanticide; of women who travel throughout the empire or are left behind by the men in their lives; and of women’s strategies for making a living in a world of cross-cultural exchanges. Jaffary and Mangan's excellent Introduction and annotations provide context and guide readers to think critically about crucial issues related to the intersections of gender with conquest, religion, work, family, and the law." —Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota
Author : Karen Vieira Powers
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0826335195
The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.
Author : Marysa Navarro,Virginia Sánchez Korrol,Kecia Ali
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 025321307X
" Sánchez Korrol considers the shifts in women's roles between the 1880s and 1930s and accompanying societal transformations.
Author : Evelyn Fishburn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0719047447
Provides a grouping of Spanish-American short stories written by women, emphasizing their differences as much as their similarities. Bombal's La historia de Maria Griselda delves into the family tensions found in a country house in southern Chile. Somers' mordant, black humour is present in El derrumbiento, and Leccion de cocina is a humorous but pessimistic account of the profound changes that marriage demands from the Mexican middle-class woman.
Author : Ileana Rodríguez,Mónica Szurmuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316419106
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about translation, literary genres, oral and written cultures, and the complex relationship between literature and the political sphere. Covering subjects from cronistas in Colonial Latin America and nation-building to feminicide and literature of the indigenous elite, this History traces the development of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in contemporary scholarship. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature will not only engage readers in ongoing debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.
Author : Julie Greer Johnson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010697452
