Unruh, Vicky.

Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin America intervening acts / [electronic resource] : Vicky Unruh. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006. - xii, 276 p. ; 24 cm.

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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Latin American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--20th century


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