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“Identity, Nation, And Revolution In Latin America.” Review Of Feminism And The Legacy Of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas By Karen Kampwirth, Women, Creole Identity, And Intellectual Life In Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico By Magali Roy-Féquière, The Revolution Question: Feminisms In El Salvador, Chile And Cuba By Julie D. Shayne, And My Life As A Colombian Revolutionary: Reflections Of A Former Guerrillera By María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo, Trans. Lorena Terando., Lee Joan Skinner

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Women's relationships to the state, to their societies, and to the construction of national discourses continue to provide topics for at-times-heated debates. On the one hand, generalizing about women in such a way as to claim that all women have a particular type of connection to political or social phenomena runs the risk of subsuming certain categories of difference—racial, ethnic, class, sexual—at the same time that it attempts to highlight gender difference. On the other hand, refusing to make any kind of statement about the issues faced by groups of women as they negotiate their relationships with the political movements, …

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El Discurso Religioso Y Los Papeles De La Mujer En El Periodismo Decimonónico Hispanoamericano, Lee Joan Skinner

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Review Of La Novela Naturalista Hispanoamericana, By Manuel Prendes, Lee Joan Skinner

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In his study, Prendes undertakes an analysis of the naturalist movement in Spanish America. The introduction sets the literary and socio-historical context for his study by briefly discussing other literary movements in nineteenth-century Spanish America and by commenting on the ways that politics and social thought influenced novelists. Prendes then reviews the extant criticism about naturalism, focusing on criticism published in Spanish, although the bibliography includes references to several critical works written in French and English. He aptly points out that Spanish American naturalist writers have begun to receive more critical attention in the past couple of decades, although he …

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Review Of Women In Argentina: Early Travel Narratives By Mónica Szurmuk, Women At Sea: Travel Writing And The Margins Of Caribbean Discourse Ed. By Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert And Ivette Romero-Cesareo, And In Praise Of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women’S Writing By Isabel Hoving., Lee Joan Skinner

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In recent years, travel writing, once considered a minor genre, has been the subject of increased critical attention. Critics have focused on the ways in which travel narratives serve both to construct and to destabilize notions of identity at the individual, regional, and national levels. As the books under consideration here show, travel narratives produced by Caribbean and Latin American women writers in particular, demonstrate the malleability of subject positions, as the women travelers interrogate their shifting roles vis-à-vis the metropolis as well as male-dominated writing traditions.

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Choloborg: The Disappearance Of The Latino Body, Ken Gonzales-Day

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The author discusses body politics in contemporary latino/a visual culture.

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Constructions Of Domesticity In Nineteenth-Century Spanish America, Lee Joan Skinner

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It is by now a commonplace that in nineteenth-century Spanish American literature the family serves as a metaphor for the nation and that authors express their political agendas through allegories of courtship and marriage. In such readings, potential love matches symbolize the reconciliation of contesting political or ethnic groups and point toward ways for the newly-formed Spanish American nations to negotiate difference without falling into civil war. Most notably, Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America succinctly explains her project-subsequently taken up and adapted by a generation of critics-as one that wishes "to locate an erotics of …

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Carnality In ‘El Matadero', Lee Joan Skinner

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Esteban Echeverria's short story "El matadero" is generally acknowledged as a literary masterpiece in miniature. It is widely anthologized and has been called the inaugural work of Argentine short fiction, if not the first Latin American short story. Seymour Menton positions it as the first story in his influential anthology El cuento hispanoamericano and calls it "una verdadera obra de arte" (34); David William Foster refers to it as "the founding text of Argentine fiction" (Sexual Textualities 135). Although the story has been popularly and critically acclaimed, it also presents certain problems for its readers. Written by an avowed Romantic, …

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El Discurso Religioso Y Los Papeles De La Mujer En El Periodismo Decimonónico Hispanoamericano, Lee Joan Skinner

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Review Of La Novela Naturalista Hispanoamericana, By Manuel Prendes, Lee Joan Skinner

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Choloborg: The Disappearance Of The Latino Body, Ken Gonzales-Day

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

Constructions Of Domesticity In Nineteenth-Century Spanish America, Lee Joan Skinner

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Carnality In ‘El Matadero', Lee Joan Skinner

CMC Faculty Publications and Research