How and Why I Write

Redefining Hispanic Women's Writing and Experience

Marisa Herrera Postlewate (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

193 Seiten

2003
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-6835-8 (ISBN)

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Recent Spanish and Latin American narratives – particularly those written by women – have engaged in a renewed identity search. Combining a broad range of genres associated with both fiction and nonfiction, the works of Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rosa Montero and Soledad Puértolas transgress traditional generic boundaries in order to recreate an identity. Furthermore, the authors place importance on both the writing technique and the story itself. By foregrounding the writing process the authors aim to reconstruct their professional identities as writers while narrating a story. The resulting works provide an insight into the alternatives available to women and writers in the wake of the millennium.

The Author: Marisa Herrera Postlewate is a native of Madrid, Spain. She received her Ph.D. in humanities with a concentration in modern and contemporary peninsular literature from The University of Texas at Arlington, where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. She has published articles on contemporary Spanish narrative in scholarly journals.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.10.2003
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 131
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 131
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8204-6835-5 / 0820468355
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-6835-8 / 9780820468358
Zustand	Neuware