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

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: Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
• | Publisher: State University of New York Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 17, 1995
• | Number of Pages: 201 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0791425606
• | ISBN-13: 9780791425602