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Spanish literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Spanish American literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Women and literature - Latin America --- Women and literature - Spain --- Gender identity in literature --- Ecofeminism in literature --- Spanish literature --- Spanish American literature --- Women and literature

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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'.

Latin American literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Latin American literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Latin American Women Writers. --- Literary Genres. --- Literary Perspectives. --- Styles.

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Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction. The book explores the central claim of ecofeminism-that there is a connection between environmental degradation and the subordination of women-with the goal of identifying and fostering liberatory alternatives.

Ecofeminism in literature. --- Ecocriticism in literature. --- Feminist literary criticism. --- Nature in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- American literature --- Frauenliteratur. --- Englisch. --- Feminismus. --- Ecocriticism. --- Feminism and literature. --- Women and literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- United States. --- American literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Feminism and literature - United States. --- Women and literature - United States. --- Ecofeminism in literature --- Ecocriticism in literature --- Feminist literary criticism --- Nature in literature --- Ecology in literature --- Human ecology in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- History and criticism --- English literature --- Nature in poetry --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Feminist criticism --- Ecofeminism

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Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript books. The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies produced there during the twelfth century. It thus makes a major contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval England and a rich resource for the teaching of women's texts. Professor Jennifer N. Brown teaches at Marymount Manhattan College; Professor Donna Alfano Bussell teaches at University of Illinois-Springfield. Contributors: Diane Auslander, Alexandra Barratt, Emma Bérat, Jennifer N. Brown, Donna A. Bussell, Thelma Fenster, Stephanie Hollis, Thomas O'Donnell, Delbert Russell, Jill Stevenson, Kay Slocum, Lisa Weston, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Anne B. Yardley.

Sociology of literature --- Old English literature --- Christian spirituality --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Devotional literature, English --- Authors and patrons --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History --- Barking Abbey --- History and criticism. --- History. --- English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Devotional literature, English - History and criticism --- Authors and patrons - England - History - To 1500 --- Literary patronage --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of literature --- Sponsorship of literature --- Art patronage --- Literary patrons --- Literature and state --- Abatejo Barking --- Abbazia di Barking --- Opatija Barking --- Anglo-Norman works. --- Authority. --- Authorship. --- Barking Abbey. --- Female Community. --- Latin works. --- Medieval Literary Culture. --- Middle English manuscript books. --- cultural history. --- hagiographies. --- literary history. --- medieval England. --- medieval women writers. --- nunnery. --- women's education. --- women's literature. --- women's texts.