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Author Marting, Diane E

Title The sexual woman in Latin American literature : dangerous desires / Diane E. Marting
Published Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations
Contents Table of Contents; List of Illustrations ix; Preface xi; A Note about Translations xv; 1. Dangerous (to) Women: Introduction 1; 2. Miguel Angel Asturias and the "Newly Sexed Woman" 55; 3. Clarice Lispector and the Promise of Freedom 147; 4. Mario Vargas Llosa and the End(s) of Sexual Freedom 206; Notes 267; Bibliography 307; Index 329
Summary ''A major and important addition to the field of Latin American studies ... [and] the work of a mature scholar. I recommend it fully and enthusiastically.''-- Sara Castro-Klaren, Johns Hopkins UniversityLatin American fiction achieved a turning point in its representation of sexual women sometime in the 1960s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-328) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Asturias, Miguel Angel -- Political and social views
Lispector, Clarice -- Political and social views
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Asturias, Miguel Angel fast
Lispector, Clarice fast
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- fast
Subject Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Women in literature.
Women and literature -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Sex in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Latin American fiction
Political and social views
Sex in literature
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Fictie.
Vrouwen.
Seks.
Spaans.
Latin America
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00053267
ISBN 0813031230
9780813031231