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Book Synopsis A Rosario Castellanos Reader by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book A Rosario Castellanos Reader written by Rosario Castellanos and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a semiotic approach to Rosario Castellanos' writings and includes selections that show the interrelatedness of her work
Book Synopsis A Rosario Castellanos Reader by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book A Rosario Castellanos Reader written by Rosario Castellanos and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the first time, allowing English-speaking readers to see the depth and range of Castellanos' work. In her introductory essay, "Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs," Maureen Ahern presents the first comprehensive study of Castellanos' work as a sign or signifying system. This approach through contemporary semiotic theory unites literary criticism and translation as an integral semiotic process. Ahern reveals how Castellanos integrated women's images, bodies, voices, and texts to feminize her discourse and create a plurality of new signs/messages about women in Mexico. Describing this process in The Eternal Feminine, Castellanos observes, "...it's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves."
Book Synopsis The Book of Lamentations by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book The Book of Lamentations written by Rosario Castellanos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by European invaders five hundred years ago. With the panoramic sweep of a Diego Rivera mural, the novel weaves together dozens of plot lines, perspectives, and characters. Blending a wealth of historical information and local detail with a profound understanding of the complex relationship between victim and tormentor, Castellanos captures the ambiguities that underlie all struggles for power. A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction from Mexico’s greatest twentieth-century woman writer, The Book of Lamentations was translated with an afterword by Ester Allen and introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto.
Book Synopsis The Nine Guardians by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book The Nine Guardians written by Rosario Castellanos and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nine Guardians is crowded with the magic and malice of warring gods and men.
Book Synopsis Prospero's Daughter by : Joanna O'Connell
Download or read book Prospero's Daughter written by Joanna O'Connell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas. O'Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos' first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican indigenismo establishes the context for individual chapters on Castellanos' narratives of ethnic conflict (the novels Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas and the short stories of Ciudad Real). In further chapters O'Connell reads Los convidados de agosto,Album de familia, and Castellanos' four collections of essays as developments of her feminist social analysis.
Book Synopsis Looking at the Mona Lisa by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book Looking at the Mona Lisa written by Rosario Castellanos and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis City of Kings by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book City of Kings written by Rosario Castellanos and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1960, these stories unfold in the Mexican state of Chiapas—the later site of the Zapatista uprising, and the author addresses controversial questions of power, class, race, and language, giving insight into the historical background of a political struggle still going on today. The complex relationship of conquerors and conquered is explored with masterful writing that earned Rosario Castellanos a permanent place in the literary history of Mexican authors.
Book Synopsis Another Way to be by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book Another Way to be written by Rosario Castellanos and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections of poetry, fiction, and essays by the Mexican poet, novelist, journalist, philosopher and diplomat (1925-1974). Edited, translated, and introduced by Myralyn F. Allgood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos written by Rosario Castellanos and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mestizo State written by Joshua Lund and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide-ranging relations between race and cultural production in modern Mexico
Book Synopsis Meditation on the Threshold by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book Meditation on the Threshold written by Rosario Castellanos and published by Bilingual Review Press (AZ). This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castellanos was widely considered Mexico's foremost woman poet. This is anthology of her work in the original Spanish with English translation on facing pages. Palley's introduction provides background and critical analysis of the work.
Book Synopsis The Boom Femenino in Mexico by : Nuala Finnegan
Download or read book The Boom Femenino in Mexico written by Nuala Finnegan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boom Femenino in Mexico: Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing is a collection of essays that focuses on literary production by women in Mexico over the last three decades. In its exploration of the boom femenino phenomenon, the book traces the history of the earlier boom in Latin American culture and investigates the implications of the use of the same term in the context of contemporary women’s writing from Mexico. In this way it engages critically with the cultural, historical and literary significance of the term illuminating the concept for a wide range of readers. It is clear that the entry of so many women writers into an arena traditionally reserved for men has prompted discussion around concepts such as ‘women’s writing’ and the very definition of ‘literature’ itself. Many of the contributors grapple with the theoretical tensions that such debates provoke offering an important opportunity to think critically about the texts produced during this period and the ways in which they have impacted on the Mexican and international cultural spheres. The project is comprehensive in its scope and, for the first time, brings together scholars from Mexico, the U.S. and Europe in a transnational forum. The book posits that despite certain aesthetic and thematic commonalities, the increased output by women writers in Mexico cannot be appraised as a unified literary movement. Instead it embraces a wide range of different generic forms and the subjects under study in the essays in the book include the best-selling work of Ángeles Mastretta, Elena Poniatowska and Laura Esquivel as well as the social and political preoccupations of journalists, Rosanna Reguillo and Cristina Pacheco. Contributors offer readings of the aesthetic visions of writers as diverse as Carmen Boullosa, Ana García Bergua, and Eve Gil while other essays examine the nuances of contemporary gender identity in the work of Ana Clavel, Sabina Berman, Brianda Domecq and María Luisa Puga. There are essays devoted to poetry by indigenous Mayan women and an analysis of the complex place of poetry within the broader framework of literary production. The problems that emerge as a result of literary cataloguing based on gender politics are also considered at length in a number of essays that take a panoramic view of literary production over the period. Various critical approaches are employed throughout and the collection as a whole demonstrates that academic interest in Mexican women’s writing of the boom femenio is thriving. Above all, the essays here provide a space in which the location of women within prevailing cultural paradigms in Mexico and their role in the mapping of power in evolving textual canons may be interrogated. It is clear from the collection that interest in such issues is still alive and that the debate is far from over.
Book Synopsis A First Book of Morphy by : Frisco Del Rosario
Download or read book A First Book of Morphy written by Frisco Del Rosario and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A First Book of Morphy aims to illustrate the teachings of three great chessplayers with games played by the first American chess champion, Paul Morphy. The book presents more than 60 of Morphy's brilliant and instructive games in demonstration of basic chess principles written by grandmasters Reuben Fine and Cecil Purdy.
Book Synopsis Los convidados de agosto by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book Los convidados de agosto written by Rosario Castellanos and published by Ediciones Era. This book was released on 1964 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro presenta la vida de la pequeña clase media en la ciudad provinciana (frontera entre el México indio y el resto del país), poblada aún por los pequeños dramas que suelen engendrar tradiciones, prejuicios o costumbres acaso inalterables. Tres cuentos y una breve novela, “El viudo Román, reúne este volumen, que trasciende el localismo, observado con piedad e ironía y por medio de un estilo admirablemente ceñido a su materia.
Book Synopsis Sun, Stone, and Shadows by : Jorge F. Hernández
Download or read book Sun, Stone, and Shadows written by Jorge F. Hernández and published by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty Mexican stories from the early twentieth century, including tales of fantasy, life in Mexico, history, the city, and private life by such authors as Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, and Juan Rulfo.
Book Synopsis Oficio de Tinieblas by : Rosario Castellanos
Download or read book Oficio de Tinieblas written by Rosario Castellanos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una obra maestra de la literatura de ficción latinoamericana escrita por la mejor autora mexicana del siglo veinte. Oficio de Tinieblas La novela transpose acontecimientos históricos ocurridos en Chiapas durante la niñez de la autora en los años treinta y explora, al mismo tiempo, la lucha de la mujer mexicana por independizarse de la opresión y el machismo de sus maridos y amantes. El argumento tiene múltiples niveles, entrelazando las historias del acaudalado Leonardo; su mujer, Isabel; Fernando, un luchador por la reforma agraria; y Catalina, una mujer maya encargada de criar al hijo bastardo de Leonardo, fruto de su violación a una niña maya. La tensión de lanovela va creciendo hasta alcanzar su punto álgido con la crucifixión del niño a manos de los indios, convencidos de que el poder del hombre blanco proviene de Cristo. Combinando una gran riqueza de información histórica y detalles locales con un profundo entendimiento de la compleja relación entre víctima y verdugo, Castellanos captura en toda su extensión las ambigüedades que subyacen en todas las luchas por el poder. ------ Oficio de Tinieblas draws on two centuries of struggle among the Maya Indians, the white landowners, and the conflicted mestiza class in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico. The novel transposes historical events of the Chiapas onto Castellanos's own childhood in the 1930s, and explores, too, the struggle of Mexico's women for independence from the oppression of their husbands and lovers.
Download or read book Mexico written by C. M. Mayo and published by Traveler's Literary Companions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic vision of Mexico is offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Shattering stereotypes, these works provide a rollicking journey from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Yucatan to border slums, from humble ranchos to a fabulous mountaintop castle.
