Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation by Estrada, Oswaldo

Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation

2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleIn Troubled Memories, Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary and cultural representations of several...
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Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation by Estrada, Oswaldo

Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation

CHF 67.40

Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation

CHF 67.40
Author: Oswaldo Estrada
Format: Paperback
Language: English
2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In Troubled Memories, Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary and cultural representations of several iconic Mexican women produced in the midst of neoliberalism, gender debates, and the widespread commodification of cultural memory. He examines recent fictionalizations of Malinche, Hern n Cort s's indigenous translator during the Conquest of Mexico; Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, the famous Baroque intellectual of New Spain; Leona Vicario, a supporter of the Mexican War of Independence; the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution; and Frida Kahlo, the tormented painter of the twentieth century. Long associated with gendered archetypes and symbols, these women have achieved mythical status in Mexican culture and continue to play a complex role in Mexican literature. Focusing on contemporary novels, plays, and chronicles in connection to films, television series, and corridos of the Mexican Revolution, Estrada interrogates how and why authors repeatedly recreate the lives of these historical women from contemporary perspectives, often generating hybrid narratives that fuse history, memory, and fiction. In so doing, he reveals the innovative and sometimes troublesome ways in which authors can challenge or perpetuate gendered conventions of writing women's lives.

Author: Oswaldo Estrada
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 07/02/2019
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781438471907

About the Author
Oswaldo Estrada is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Ser mujer y estar presente: Disidencias de género en la literatura mexicana contemporánea and La imaginación novelesca: Bernal Díaz entre géneros y épocas.


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