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Writing Women in Central America: Gender and the Fictionalization of History »

Authors: Laura Barbas-Rhoden
ISBN-13: 9780896802339, ISBN-10: 0896802337
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Laura Barbas-Rhoden

Book Synopsis

During the last third of the 20th century, revolutionary movements in Central America coincided with a boom of publications by Latin American women. Barbas-Rhoden (foreign languages, Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. Carolina) examines the work of four of these female authors: Claribel Alegría, Gioconda Belli, Rosario Aguilar, and Tatiana Lobo. She explores ways in which they have reclaimed the traditions, oral histories, and cultural legacy of the isthmus in their prose and poetry, producing texts that respond to political injustices, point out the continuing legacy of patriarchal rules, and interpret history from a female perspective. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: "Disrupting the Thread": Dominant Narratives and the Works of Central American Women	1
1	Awakening Women in Central America: Claribel Alegria's Fictions	15
2	The Quest for the Mother: Women and Memory in the Novels of Gioconda Belli	48
3	Asking Other Questions: Personal Stories and Historical Events in the Fiction of Rosario Aguilar	80
4	"Local Histories and Global Designs" in Tatiana Lobo's Narratives	121
	Conclusion: Where Now? History and the Present	162
App	Central American Women Writers: A Bibliographical Study	167
	Notes	177
	Bibliography	185
	Index	197