INVESTIGADORES
SZURMUK Monica
libros
Título:
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
Autor/es:
ILEANA RODRIGUEZ; MÓNICA SZURMUK
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2015 p. 638
ISSN:
978-1107085329
Resumen:
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women´s Literature is the major scholarly resource for anyone interested in the development of women´s writing in Latin America. Ambitious in geographical and spatial terms, it explores the lettered production of women from the ancient indigenous worlds up to the beginning of the 21st century. The path is traced from Malinche to Clarice Lispector, Diamela Eltit and Gioconda Belli, through the works of Sor Juana, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Gabriela Mistral, Teresa de la Parra, and Yolanda Oreamuno. It is organized chronologically, but it is much more than a list of periods, names, and topics, and much more than a series of chapters on individual writers, genres, and movements. It is a book that thinks over the relationship between literacy, the literary, and literature; it reconsiders the historical articulation between oral and written worlds, accounts for the key role of women in inventing new genres, and in creatively engaging in the social and political spheres from the ancient indigenous worlds to the present. While it is a book that can be read from cover to cover, students and scholars can also use it as a resource for specific information on an author or topic. The Cambridge History of Latin American Women´s Literature is both a readable narrative and a reliable conceptual reference source. Its treatment of a drastically changing literary canon is both sophisticated and sensitive.