| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 186 pages). |
| Series |
Latin American women writers |
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Latin American women writers.
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| Contents |
To love or to ingest / Cristina Peri Rossi -- English love / Margo Glantz -- The fall / Armonía Somers -- The sea from the window / Fanny Buitrago -- Young amatista / Alicia Steimberg -- Farewell, my love / Ana María Shua -- Immensely Eunice / Andrea Blanqué -- Golden days of a queen of diamonds / Sylvia Lago -- In Florence ten years later / Marilyn Bobes -- Love story / Elena Poniatowska -- Aunt Mariana / Angeles Mastretta -- Procession of love / Nélida Piñon -- Santa Catalina, Arequipa / Teresa Ruiz Rosas -- Impossible story / Carmen Boullosa -- Spick and span / Liliana Heker -- End of the millennium / Luisa Valenzuela. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything-in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. To women were left the pale love stories that conducted appropriate partners in proper settings to socially acceptable outcomes. So it was in Latin America well into the twentieth century. The stories in this volume announce a dramatic change, a transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of the role-even the nature-of women in this most "feminine" literary tradition. These stories, by exciting new writers as well as by the renowned, are "violations" of the most exhilarating sort, flouting conventions of language, behavior, subject matter, and style to remake and widen our once-narrow view of the literary landscape of Latin America. Here women writers from Mexico and Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, Cuba, Peru, and Uruguay break social, religious, political, and sexual barriers in fiction that is by turns erotic, satirical, shocking, tragic-and always, in its remapping of literary boundaries, deeply and richly entertaining. |
| Subject |
Latin American fiction -- Women authors -- Translations into English.
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Romance fiction, Latin American -- Translations into English.
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Latin American fiction -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00993029
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Romance fiction, Latin American. (OCoLC)fst01003039
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Psiche.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Violations. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004 0803224184 0803273479 (DLC) 2004004123 (OCoLC)54500068 |
| ISBN |
0803204736 (electronic bk.) |
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9780803204737 (electronic bk.) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5001 T154 .0007 -2004 nbdocs |
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