Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women - 9781855661424
Un libro in lingua di Carvalho Susan E. edito da Boydell & Brewer Inc, 2007
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Space is critical to imaginative writing. As English novelist Elizabeth Bowen has observed: 'nothing can happen nowhere'. This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for reading novels, and in particular women's fiction in Spanish America, with a focus on geoplot, on space rather than time as the narrative engine. Following the work of Lefebvre and Friedman, the author examines recent works by Spanish America's most visible women novelists - Angeles Mastretta (Mexico), Isabel Allende (Chile), Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico), Sara Sefchovich (Mexico) and Laura Restrepo (Colombia) -and the ways in which their female protagonists challenge the spatial barriers erected by capitalist hegemony. Margins, borders, liminal spaces, the chora-space, and the body are emphasized as potential sites of transgression. The analysis identifies spatial negotiation as a mechanism both for cementing and for undermining authority, thus exposing the strategies through which literature constructs and represents power. SUSAN CARVALHO is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women
- Sottotitolo: Mapping the Narrative
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Carvalho Susan E.
- Editore: Boydell & Brewer Inc
- Collana: Boydell & Brewer Inc (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 21 Agosto '07
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Spanish American fiction Women authors History and criticism Spanish American fiction 20th century History and criticism Spanish American fiction 21st century History and criticism
- Pagine: 199
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 19
- EAN-13: 9781855661424