Rewriting womanhood : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903 /

LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Rewriting womanhood : feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903 / [print] Nancy LaGreca. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) - The Penn State Romance studies series . - Penn State Romance studies. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.

"An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragán of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roqué of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis à vis the prescribed comportment for women during a conservative era"--Provided by publisher.



9780271027142 9780271036519 9780271049496 9780271054995


Spanish American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Spanish American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Feminism and literature--Latin America.
Women in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ7081.L179.R497 2009