Women's Writing in Colombia An Alternative History [Hardcover]

Winner of the Montserrat Ord??ez Prize 2018

This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian womens writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the countrys history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.

Contents

 

1 Introduction  Modernitys Rebel Daughters

 

2 La Violencia, Postmodernity and Feminism: the nonsynchronicity of Albaluc?a ?ngel

 

3 Ni Engels, ni Freud, ni Reich: Marvel Moreno as Boom/post-Boom Writer

 

4 Una voz antifeminista? Mar?a Mercedes Carranza, Public Intellectual and Postmodern Poet

 

5 Testimonio in a Post-revolutionary Era: the Writings of Female Ex-combatants

 

6 Sexual Difference in Times of War: the Poetry of Piedad Morales and the Ruta

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7 Conclusion