Estrada Troubled Memories

Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7191-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South

Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Estrada, Oswaldo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Iconic Mexican Women at the Threshold of a New Century

1. Forget Me Not: Malinche’s Struggles in Twenty-First-Century Mexico

2. Impossible Nun: Sor Juana and the Traps of Representation

3. Leona Vicario: The Sweet Mother of the Nation

4. Si Adelita se fuera con otro. Soldaderas of an Unfinished Revolution

Epilogue Espero alegre la salida: Frida Kahlo and the Never-Ending Torments of a Female Icon

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oswaldo Estrada is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Ser mujer y estar presente: Disidencias de género en la literatura mexicana contemporánea and La imaginación novelesca: Bernal Díaz entre géneros y épocas.