Latin-American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender - Paperback

by Myriam Yvonne Jehenson (Author)

Describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives.

This book provides a much needed grouping of Latin-American women, emphasizing their differences-the diversity of their cultural backgrounds, socio-economic conditions, and literary strategies-as well as their commonalities. Humble writers of the Spanish and Portuguese testimonio and sophisticated postmodernist authors alike are contextualized within a "matriheritage of founding discourses."

Author Biography

Myriam Yvonne Jehenson is Professor and Chair of International Languages and Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hartford. She is the author of The Golden World of Pastoral: A Comparative Study of Philip Sidney's "Arcadias" and Honore d'Urfe's "L'Astree.