Reading the Body Politic
Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers
Will be published approx. on 1. November 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-8166-1948-1 (ISBN)
Description
Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-1948-1 (9780816619481)
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Person
Amy K. Kaminsky is professor of women's studies and a member of the graduate faculty in Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of After Exile (1999) and editor of Water Lilies (1995).
Content
Translating gender; Gender as category and feminism as strategy in Latin American literary analysis; The presence in absence of exile; Body/politics: Alicia Partnoy's The little school; Gaby Brimmer - A life in three voices; The uses and limits of foreign feminist theory - Elena Garro's "Los Recuerdos del Porvenir"; Sylvia Molloy's lesbian cartographies - body, text, and geography; Cristina Peri Rossi and the question of lesbian presence; Afterword.