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El Bildungsroman Femenino De Ángeles Mastretta Y Carmen Boullosa: Hacia Una Perspectiva Posmoderna, Rebeca Cunill
El Bildungsroman Femenino De Ángeles Mastretta Y Carmen Boullosa: Hacia Una Perspectiva Posmoderna, Rebeca Cunill
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The traditional Bildungsroman that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th Century embodied the concept of progress and the belief in the Enlightenment ideals of universality, knowledge and the search for truth. In the classic model of the genre the values of the society represented, those of modernity, are ultimately legitimized. In this dissertation, I argue that the female Bildungsroman of Ángeles Mastretta and Carmen Boullosa respond to a fundamentally postmodern aesthetics and ideological framework. In their novels, “Arráncame la vida” (1985), “Antes” (1989), “Mal de amores” (1995) and “Treinta años” (1999), the Mexican writers challenge the legitimacy …