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

by Myriam Yvonne Jehenson (Author)

This book 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.

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.