Padilla Changing Women, Changing Nation

Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4278-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Padilla, Yajaira M.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing Women into Nation, War, and Migration

1. Campesina as Nation: Feminine Resistance and Power in Manlio Argueta’s Un día en la vida and Cuzcatlán: Donde bate la Mar del Sur

2. Making Militants and Mothers: Rethinking the Image of the Guerrillera in Women’s Revolutionary Testimonios

3. Setting La diabla Free: Women, Violence, and the Struggle for Representation in Postwar El Salvador

4. ¿Hermanas lejanas?: Female Immigrant Subjectivities and the Politics of Voice in the Salvadoran Transnational Imagined Community

5. Salvadoran-American Sleuthing in the U.S. South and Beyond: McPeek Villatoro’s Romilia Chacón Mystery Series

Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yajaira M. Padilla is Associate Professor of Central American and US Latina/o Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kansas.