Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature [Hardcover]

Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present.Introduction: Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature Displacing Domesticity: Cosmopolitanisms, Travel Writing and Narratives of the Home Of 'Other Spaces:' Staging Repression in Griselda Gambaro and Diana Raznovich Global Patagonia: Rewriting the National Space Poetic Cross-Overs: The Paradoxical Spaces of Women's Poetry

An ambitious project covering significant shifts on the Argentine cultural landscape from 1920 to the present day, the study is well documented with exhaustive notes and bibliography ... a challenging read that engages, instructs, and goads the reader toward the formulation of new geo-poetics for Argentine modernity ... Highly recommended. - Choice

In a welcome challenge to the growing body of work on literary spaces, Marta Sierra's book eschews conventional modes of seeking in the novel form an allegorical figuration of the nation-state. Sierra traces through autobiography, theatre, poetry and narrative pastiches an ongoing de-stabilization of hegemonic spatialities, a subversive place-making that injects unhomeliness into the domestic sphere, corporalizes the landscape and opens the territory to nomadic displacements. Written in a dense yet always engaging dialogue with cultural and political history, and attuned to the intricacies of the literary text, Sierra's work invites us to remap the literary geographies of Argentine modernity. - Jens Andermann, professor of Latin American Studies, University of Zurich

Marta Sierra offers readers an innovative cultural studies investigation into the gendered spatial poetics of Argentine women's writing. Her lC'