Gendered Self-Consciousness in Mexican and Chicana Women Writers: The Female Body as an Instrument of Political Resistance

Authors

Traci Roberts-Camps, University of the PacificFollow

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Document Type

Book

Department

Modern Languages & Literature

Description

This book examines the various representations of the female body in four contemporary Mexican and Chicana novels written by women: Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963) by Elena Garro, Nadie me verá llorar (1999) by Cristina Rivera Garza, La piel del cielo (2001) by Elena Poniatowska, and Caramelo (2002) by Sandra Cisneros. This work also analyzes the depictions of the female body in these novels from the perspectives of space and violence, abjection and national progress, sexuality and sensuality, and visibility and invisibility.

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https://www.worldcat.org/title/gendered-self-consciousness-in-mexican-and-chicana-women-writers-the-female-body-as-an-instrument-of-political-resistance/oclc/654398946&referer=brief_results

ISBN

978-0-7734-5235-0

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Publisher

Edwin Mellen Press

City

Lewiston, NY

First Page

1

Last Page

197

Disciplines

Film and Media Studies | Latin American Languages and Societies | Modern Languages | Modern Literature | Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature

Recommended Citation

Roberts-Camps, T. (2008). Gendered Self-Consciousness in Mexican and Chicana Women Writers: The Female Body as an Instrument of Political Resistance. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cop-facbooks/167