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About this book
During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, have become international best sellers. The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed reactions: at the same time that the secondary status afforded women's narrative has come to be questioned in many academic circles, some authors are dissociating themselves from women's writing. The essays in this volume address these issues, providing a much needed contribution to the study of women's narrative.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Other Mirror: An Introduction
- 2. Displacement: Strategies of Transformation in ArrĂĄncame la vida
- 3. Transgression in the Comic Mode: Ăngeles Mastretta and Her Cast of Liberated Aunts
- 4. ÂżEn dĂłnde van a florear?: La "Flor de Lis" and the Problematics of Identity
- 5. Light-Writing: Biography and Photography in TinĂsima
- 6. TinĂsima: The Construction of the Self Through the Structures of Narrative Discourse
- 7. Historiographic Metafiction or the Rewriting of History in Son vacas, somos puercos
- 8. Cross-Dressing and the Birth of a Nation: Duerme by Carmen Boullosa
- 9. On Recipes, Reading, and Revolution: Postboom Parody in Como agua para chocolate
- 10. Storytelling in Laura Esquivel's Como agua para chocolate Yael Halevi-Wise
- 11. The Sound of Silence: Voices of the Marginalized in Cristina Pacheco's Narrative
- 12. The Transformation of the Reader in MarĂa Luisa Puga's PĂĄnico o peligro
- 13. Growing Up Jewish in Mexico: Sabina Berman's La bobe and Rosa NissĂĄn's Novia que te vea
- 14. BĂĄrbara Jacobs: Gendered Subjectivity and the Epistolary Essay
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors