Title Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing : Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (251 pages) Series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Routledge studies in contemporary literature. Contents PART I Reshaping Gender by Rethinking Genre. Policing Social Injustice: Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Petra Delicado Series -- Gender and Genre Issues in Dulce Chacón's Cielos de barro -- Dialogue of Genres: Dystopian Buenos Aires in El niño pez (2004) by Lucía Puenzo -- PART II Gender and Violence: Stories of Denunciation and Resistance. Writing for My Daughter, My Mother, My Grandmother: The Power of Words Against Women's Violence in Juana Castro's Del color de los ríos -- La Llorona: A Cultural Myth of the Latin American Woman in the Twenty-first Century -- Laura Restrepo's Delirio: A Refoundational Novel -- PART III Women and the Environment. For a Better World: Alicia Puleo's Critical Ecofeminism -- Environmental Crisis and the Male Culture in Marie Arana's Cellophane -- The Ecological Dimension of Natalia Toledo Paz's Poetry -- PART IV Global Politics from a Gendered Perspective. Toward a Theatre Without Borders: The Global Context of Itziar Pascual's Dramaturgy -- In the Beginning there was Violence: Marvel Moreno's En Diciembre llegaban las brisas or the Genesis of Power -- Transcending a Watery Border: Unsettled Bodies and In-Between Subjects in Por la vía de Tarifa -- Writing an Engaged Novel in the Network Society: Belén Gopegui, Systemic Narratives, and Globalization Summary This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ethical, philosophical, and political perspectives including feminism, postcolonial theories, cultural and gender studies, information age studies, and ecofeminism. The book visits continuit Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Spanish literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Spanish American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Latin America Women and literature -- Spain Gender identity in literature. Ecofeminism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Ecofeminism in literature Gender identity in literature Spanish American literature -- Women authors Spanish literature -- Women authors Women and literature Latin America Spain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author López, Francisca ISBN 9781136177163 1136177167 9780203082096 0203082095

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