The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance

Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-11176-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Literatures of the Americas

This book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven transformational figures for Mexican feminism. This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, and Nellie Campobello, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos, and Pita Amor, forerunner writers and poets whose works laid a path for Mexican women writers in the later twentieth century. Poniatowska’s essays discuss their fervent activity, interactions with other prominent figures, details and intricacies about their specific works, their scandalous and irreverent activities to draw attention to their craft, and specific revelations about their lives. The extensive critical introduction surveys the early feminist movement and Mexican cultural history, explores how Mexico became a more closed society by the mid-twentieth century, and suggests further reading and films. This book will be of interest both to the general reader and to scholars interested in feminist/gender studies, Mexican literary and cultural studies, Latin American women writers, the cultural renaissance, translation, and film studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martínez, Elizabeth Coonrod

Poniatowska, Elena

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Elena Poniatowska: Legacy and Biography.- 3. Diego I’m Alone, Diego I am no longer alone, Frida Kahlo.- 4. María Izquierdo, Backwards and Forwards.- 5. Nahui Olin, She who Made Waves.- 6. Pita Amor in the Arms of God.- 7. Elena Garro, The Rebellious Particle.- 8. Rosario From “My Dear Beloved Guerra” to the “Little Boy with Corn-Colored Hair”.- 9. Nellie Campobello, Who Was Not Granted Death.

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez was Professor at DePaul University, USA, 2010 to 2020, and at Sonoma State University, USA, 1995 to 2010. Her recent books include Teaching Late Twentieth Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers (2021), Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography (2007), and Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska, translation and introduction (2005). She was Editor of the academic journal Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies journal from 2010 to 2020.

Elena Poniatowska is one of the most powerful and important voices of Spanish American literature and journalism.Her chosen genre is literary journalism, much of which is collected in the 7 volume  (1991-1999). Her prolific career has won her many awards including the Mazatlán Prize twice for  (1970) and  (1992), the Alfaguara Prize for  (2007), and the Cervantes Prize for Literature in 2013.