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Author LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

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

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages).
Series The Penn State Romance studies series
Penn State Romance studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.
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.
Summary "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.
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Subject Spanish American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature -- Latin America.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Feminism and literature. (OCoLC)fst00922735
Spanish American literature. (OCoLC)fst01128195
Spanish American literature -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01128215
Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
Spanish Literature.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- Rewriting womanhood. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009 9780271034386 0271034386 (DLC) 2008034080 (OCoLC)242565122
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