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Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin America [electronic resource] : intervening acts / Vicky Unruh.

By: Unruh, Vicky.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006Edition: 1st ed.Description: xii, 276 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Latin American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 860.9/9287/0980904 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The "fatal fact" of the new woman writer in Latin America, 1920s-1930s -- Alfonsina Storni's misfits: a critical refashioning of poetisa aesthetics -- Walking backwards: Victoria Ocampo's scenes of intrusion -- No place like home : Norah Lange's art of anatomy -- Choreography with words : Nellie Campobello's search for a writer's pose -- "Dressing and undressing the mind" : Antonieta Rivas Mercado's unfinished performance -- Acts of literary privilege in Havana : Mariblanca Sabas Alomá and Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta -- Ad-libs by the women of Amauta : Magda Portal and María Wiesse -- A refusal to perform : Patrícia Galvão's spy on the wall.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-266) and index.

The "fatal fact" of the new woman writer in Latin America, 1920s-1930s -- Alfonsina Storni's misfits: a critical refashioning of poetisa aesthetics -- Walking backwards: Victoria Ocampo's scenes of intrusion -- No place like home : Norah Lange's art of anatomy -- Choreography with words : Nellie Campobello's search for a writer's pose -- "Dressing and undressing the mind" : Antonieta Rivas Mercado's unfinished performance -- Acts of literary privilege in Havana : Mariblanca Sabas Alomá and Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta -- Ad-libs by the women of Amauta : Magda Portal and María Wiesse -- A refusal to perform : Patrícia Galvão's spy on the wall.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.