The Shattered Mirror Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/1998
Maria Elena de Valdes enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernandez, Maria Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration -- without reprobation -- of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.
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