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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Davies, Catherine, 1952- Place in the sun? London ; New Jersey : Zed Books ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)605444824 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Davies |
ISBN: | 1856495418 9781856495417 1856495426 9781856495424 |
OCLC Number: | 37560886 |
Description: | vii, 247 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : ''Twixt the green sea and the azured vault' -- Contexts : women writers in neo-colonial Cuba, 1900-59 -- Mother Nation : female subjectivity and national identity in Cuba, 1900-35 -- Dulce María Loynaz : horror of house and home -- Fina García Marruz : love of mother and God -- Contexts : women writers in post-revolutionary Cuba, 1959-92 -- Women's short stories : the feminist and the female -- Mother Africa and cultural memory : Nancy Morejón, Georgina Herrera, Excilia Saldaña -- The mother and female desire : poetry in the 1980s and early 1990s -- Final comment : One hundred years of hard-won independence : women writers and the special period. |
Responsibility: | Catherine Davies. |
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'It is quite a feat to have produced a book such as this ...It offer[s] a coherent, thorough and extremely cogent overview of the sociopolitical context of women's writing in Cuba in the twentieth century.'Mango Season'Carefully interweaves sociopolitical happenings that impacted the Cuban woman as both person and writer... Davies' feminist reading reveals a remarkable group of talented and independent women who persisted against all odds... A must-have volume.'Choice Read more...
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