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Summary:

This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women's writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country's history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.

Table of Contents:

• Modernity's rebel daughters
• La violencia, postmoderity and feminism: the nonsynchronicity of Albalucía Ángel
• "Ni Engels, ni Freud, ni Reich": Marvel Moreno as boom/post-boom writer
• Una voz antifeministia?: María Mercedes Carranza, public intellectual and "postmodern" poet
• Testimonio in a post-revolutionary era: the writings of female ex-combatants
• Sexual difference in times of war: the poetry of Piedad Morales and the Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres.

Author/Creator:

Elston, Cherilyn , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Women's writing in Colombia: an alternative history [by Elston, C.]

Related Series:

Breaking feminist waves

Subjects:

Colombian literature — Women authors — History and criticism

Feminism — Colombia — History

Gender identity in literature

Literature, Modern — 20th century

Gender expression — Colombia

1900-1999

Colombian literature

Feminism

Literature, Modern

Gender expression

Colombian literature — Women authors

Colombia

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 27, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ1075.5.C6 E57 2016eb

ISBNs:

9783319432618 (electronic bk.)
3319432613 (electronic bk.)
9783319432601 [Invalid]
3319432605 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

966670983