Rewriting womanhood feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903 / Nancy LaGreca.

Author/creator LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,
Descriptionviii, 202 p. ; 23 cm.
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SeriesThe Penn State Romance studies series
Penn State Romance studies. ^A769331
Contents Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.
Abstract "An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragán of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roqué of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis à vis the prescribed comportment for women during a conservative era"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-193) and index.
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LCCN 2008034080
ISBN9780271034386 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271034386 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780271034393 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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