Title Between civilization & barbarism : women, nation, and literary culture in modern Argentina / by Francine Masiello

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (x, 251 pages) Series Engendering Latin America ; v. 2 Engendering Latin America ; v. 2. Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- pt. I The Years of Confrontation -- Between Civilization and Barbarism: Gendered Struggles in the Nineteenth Century (starting p. 17) -- Angels in the Argentine House: The Women's Debate on Domestic Life, Female Education, and Writing (starting p. 53) -- pt. II Consolidating the Nation-State -- Science and Sentimentality: The Female Subject in Modernity (starting p. 83) -- The Traffic in Women: Prostitutes, Money, and Narration (starting p. 111) -- pt. III Modernity and the Nationalist Revival -- Desiring Women: The Female Presence and Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century (starting p. 139) -- "Dona Juana Pueblo" Speaks on Narration, Labor, and Commodity Culture (starting p. 165) -- Notes (starting p. 201) -- Works Cited (starting p. 227) -- Index (starting p. 245) Summary "Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the "civilizing" agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of barbarism to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the neatly outlined roles assigned them."--BOOK JACKET. "Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis. She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working classes."--BOOK JACKET. "Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises' or crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women's literature and illuminating the role of women informing the culture of present-day Argentina."--Jacket Analysis Spanish literature By Women Spanish literature Special subjects Women Argentina Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Argentine literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Argentine literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Argentina Women in literature. Women -- Argentina -- History Women -- Argentina -- Social conditions LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Argentine literature Argentine literature -- Women authors Civilization Literature and society Women Women in literature Women -- Social conditions Frauenliteratur Politik Literatur Frau Spaans. Letterkunde. Vrouwen. Vrouwelijke auteurs. Geschichte (1820-1930) Sozialgeschichte 1800-1990. SUBJECT Argentina -- Civilization -- 19th century Argentina -- Civilization -- 20th century Subject Argentina Argentinien Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 058502135X 9780585021355

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