Aproximaciones a La Narrativa Femenina Del Diecinueve En Latinoamerica

“. . . Torres-Pou has analyzed a diversified array of 19th-century women writers from various parts of the Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, California, and Texas. These are authors who made groundbreaking contributions to several genres of Hispanic letters but whose writings, even those that were well received in their day despite the obstacles the writers faced as women, have largely been ignored by succeeding generations. . . . Torres-Pou effectively fills gaps in our scholarly knowledge. He does so by including texts that were written in English, French, and Portuguese as well as Spanish, and by placing these early Latin American writers’ works in their respective sociohistorical contexts. He also develops illuminating comparisons between the social status of women and women writers in Latin American with the contemporaneous situation of women in Europe and the United States. . . . a well-written, thoroughly-documented study that presents a wealth of information and new insights of interest not only to specialists in the field of Latin American women’s literature but to anyone interested in women’s studies or the history of the Americas.” – Phyllis Zatlin

"[it is] siginificant as it provides a testimony of Mexican-American experiences." -- Prof. Catherine Davies, University of Nottingham

Table of contents:
Prefacio; Introducción
1. Problemas de la tipología de la novela histórica femenina tradicional: El modelo de Lindaura Anzoátegui de Campero
2. La novela histórica masculina y femenina del diecinueve frente a frente: Jicoténcal y Guatimozín
3. Aspectos de la ansiedad de autoría en dos escritoras dominicanas del siglo XIX: el case de Rosa Duarte y Amelia Francasci
4. El melodrama romántico: La crítica al sistema patriarcal en Ursula de Maria Firmina dos Reis
5. El melodrama y el Realismo: La intertextualidad en la crítica al expansionismo estadounidense en Who Would Have Thought It? de María Amaparo Ruiz de Burton
6. :as Antillas en la pluma de dos escritores caribeños del siglo XIX: El proyecto galo-antillano de María Mercedes Santacruz y Montalvo y Ramón Emeterio Betances
7. Viajeras latinoamericanas en los Estados Unidos: Recuerdos de viaje de María Mercedes Santacruz y Montalvo y Eduwardo Mansilla
8. La frontera como formulación literaria: La crítica anticolonial de Leonor Villegas de Magnón
Conclusión; Bibliografia; Indice