The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature

Abstract

"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"-- Provided by publisher. Introduction: light and proud and fervent, like a flag fulfilled in the wind / Ileana Rodríguez and Mónica Szurmuk -- Women in ancient America : the indigenous world. Reconstituting the archive: the indigenous ancient world / Santa Arias -- Mulieres litterarum: oral, visual, and written narratives of indigenous elite women / Rocío Quispe-Agnoli -- The establishment of feminine paradigms: translators, traitors, nuns / Mónica Díaz -- Women "cronistas" in colonial Latin America / Valeria Añón -- Mulier docta and literary fame: the challenges of authorship in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz / Beatriz Colombi -- Women writers in creole societies : nation building projects. New genres, new explorations of womanhood: travel writers, journalists, and working women / Mónica Szurmuk and Claudia Torre -- Nineteenth-century Brazilian women writers and nation-building: invisibilities, affiliations, resistances / Rita Terezinha Schmidt -- Sense and sensibility: women's experience in the nineteenth century / Francine Masiello -- The lyrical world in the nineteenth century / Gwen Kirkpatrick -- "The damned mob of scribbling women": gendered networks in fin-de-siècle Latin America (1898-1920)/ Ana Peluffo -- Literature by women in the Spanish Antilles (1800-1950) / Catherine Davies -- Women writers in between : socialist, modern, developmentalists, and liberal democratic ideals. Women writers in the revolution: regional socialist realism / Maricruz Castro Ricalde -- Revolutionary insurgencies, paradigmatic cases / Parvathi Kumaraswami -- The women of the avant-gardes / Vicky Unruh -- Dissident cosmopolitanisms / Gabriel Giorgi and Germán Garrido -- Boom, realismo mágico -- boom and boomito / María Rosa Olivera-Williams -- Poetry-fugue: Latin American women and the lyrical move / Karen Benavente -- Mexican migrations, intercultural flows / Debra A. Castillo -- Displaced selves: exile and migration in Latin American women's writing / María Inés Lagos -- The view from here / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo -- Women writing in the Andes since colonial times / Núria Vilanova -- Rebellion, revision, and renewal: Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Kanika Batra -- Central American women's literature / Nicole Caso -- Writing violence / Jean Franco -- New/old indigenous paradigms in Maya women's literary production / Arturo Arias -- Genres of the real: testimonio, autobiography, the subjective turn / Nora Strejilevich -- Performances, memory, monuments / Michael J. Lazzara -- Mothers and children in biopolitical networks / Nora Domínguez -- Women writers in a one-world global system : neoliberalism, sexuality, subjectivity. Market and non-consumer narratives: from the "levity of being" to abjection / Beatriz González-Stephan and Carolyn Fornoff -- Per-verse Latin American women poets / Laura M. Martins -- Beyond the book: new forms of women's writing / Marcy Schwartz -- Literature about feminicide in Ciudad Juárez / Patricia Ravelo Blancas and Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba -- Afterword: figures, texts, and moments / Mary Louise Pratt.