An edition of The Shattered Mirror (1998)

The Shattered Mirror

Representations of Women in Mexican Literature (Texas Pan American Series)

1st University of Texas Press Ed edition

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An edition of The Shattered Mirror (1998)

The Shattered Mirror

Representations of Women in Mexican Literature (Texas Pan American Series)

1st University of Texas Press Ed edition

Popular images of women in Mexico - conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television - were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico.

Maria Elena de Valdes enters into a selective 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 Crus 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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English
Pages
294

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Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
2014, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
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Cover of: The Shattered Mirror
The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature (Texas Pan American Series)
1998, University of Texas Press
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The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature (Texas Pan American Series)
1998, University of Texas Press
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Library of Congress
PQ7133 .V35 1998, PQ7133.V35 1998

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
294
Dimensions
8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weight
2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10293543M
Internet Archive
shatteredmirrorr0000vald
ISBN 10
0292715900
ISBN 13
9780292715905
LCCN
97016813
OCLC/WorldCat
36799091
Library Thing
2998306
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Goodreads
354339

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