Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women: Mapping the Narrative

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2007 - 199 páginas
A reading of contemporary women's fiction in Spanish America in which space, rather than time, is seen as the driver of the narrative.

Space is critical to imaginative writing. As English novelist Elizabeth Bowen has observed: 'nothing can happen nowhere'. This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for reading novels, and in particular women's fiction in Spanish America, with a focus on geoplot, on space rather than time as the narrative engine. Following the work of Lefebvre and Friedman, the author examines recent works by Spanish America's most visible women novelists - Angeles Mastretta [Mexico], Isabel Allende [Chile], Rosario Ferré [Puerto Rico], Sara Sefchovich [Mexico] and Laura Restrepo [Colombia] -and the ways in which their female protagonists challenge the spatial barriers erected by capitalist hegemony. Margins, borders, liminal spaces, the chora-space, and the body are emphasized as potential sites of transgression. The analysis identifies spatial negotiation as a mechanism both for cementing and for undermining authority, thus exposing the strategies through which literature constructs and represents power.

SUSAN CARVALHO is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School.

 

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At the Crossroads of Literature and Geography
17
Restrepos La novia oscura
42
Allendes Retrato en sepia
75
Ferrés Flight of the Swan
106
Sefchovichs Demasiado amor
131
Mastrettas Mal de amores
157
Conclusion
185
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