Troubled Memories

Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation

Oswaldo Estrada (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2019
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7190-7 (ISBN)

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Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.

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, Hernán Cortés's indigenous translator during the Conquest of Mexico; Sor Juana Inés 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.

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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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Iconic Mexican Women at the Threshold of a New Century

1. Forget Me Not: Malinche’s Struggles in Twenty-First-Century Mexico

2. Impossible Nun: Sor Juana and the Traps of Representation

3. Leona Vicario: The Sweet Mother of the Nation

4. Si Adelita se fuera con otro ... Soldaderas of an Unfinished Revolution

Epilogue Espero alegre la salida: Frida Kahlo and the Never-Ending Torments of a Female Icon

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; 4 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4384-7190-4 / 1438471904
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-7190-7 / 9781438471907
Zustand	Neuware