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This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area; others have made such telling contributions to particular strands of literature that their names are immediately evocative of specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose fiction respectively. The distinctiveness of this volume lies in its attention to writers from widely differing historical and social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted by the authors. Brígida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include 'Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond', 'El discurso de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad'; and 'Discursos Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema'. Lloyd Hughes Davies teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His publications include 'Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus' and 'Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction'.

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This wide-ranging study provides the first historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience. Maroula Joannou brings alive a vibrant time of innovation, hope and change in the history of literature and the history of women. Scholarly, incisive, and immensely readable, the book analyses the literary impact of the women's movement in Britain and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, on books as diverse as Angela Carter's modern fairy tales and Ursula Le Guin's science fiction. Topics include femininity, sexuality, working-class women's writing, motherhood, continuities and change in the literary tradition, the feminist confessional novel, experiments in science and detective fiction, narratives engaging with the end of the British Empire and black women's writing in the United States. This is an important and thought-provoking contribution to literary history providing original readings of A. S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Doris Lessing, Erica Jong, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy, Jean Rhys, Joanna Russ, Alice Walker, Fay Weldon and others. It will be of interest to students and teachers of modern literature, women's studies and cultural history.

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La agencia femenina en la literatura ibérica y latinoamericana responde al interés científico y educativo de los estudios sobre obras literarias escritas o protagonizadas por mujeres. Veinte autoras y dos autores procedentes de universidades de todo el mundo centran el tema en el ámbito español e hispanoamericano y establecen una referencia a partir de la cual potenciar la investigación y enriquecerla desde puntos de vista complementarios.El volumen está estructurado en veinte capítulos que se ocupan de la caracterización de personajes femeninos, concretamente su capacidad de elección y sus estrategias de resistencia en circunstancias adversas en poemarios, novelas, cuentos, ensayos y obras de teatro escritos por hombres o mujeres, además de considerar el compromiso y la amplitud del sujeto en varias escritoras del ámbito geográfico y lingüístico acotado. Algunos de los nombres cuya obra se aborda en este volumen son Teresa de Cartagena, sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Benito Pérez Galdós, Miguel de Unamuno, Teresa de la Parra, Salvadora Medina Onrubia, Carmen Laforet, Ida Vitale, Carmen Martín Gaite, Ana María Matute, Josefina Aldecoa, Rosario Ferré, Isabel Allende, Teresa Porzecansky, Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Graciela Montes, Soledad Puértolas, Laura Esquivel, Rosa Montero, Myriam Moscona, Maite Carranza, Ángela Vallvey, Icíar Bollaín, Susana Vallejo, Julio Baquero Cruz y Laura Gallego.

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Fiction --- French literature --- Literature --- Littérature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Women and literature --- -Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- -History and criticism --- -Women authors --- Littérature --- Femmes écrivains --- Belles-lettres --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism. --- Literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Language use --- Women's literature --- Book