The sexual woman in Latin American literature : dangerous desires

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Label

The sexual woman in Latin American literature : dangerous desires

Title remainder

dangerous desires

Statement of responsibility

Diane E. Marting

Creator

• Marting, Diane E

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Lispector, Clarice -- Political and social views
• Sex in literature
• Asturias, Miguel Angel -- Political and social views
• Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- -- Political and social views
• Women and literature -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
• Women in literature
• Sex role in literature

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Latin American fiction achieved a turning point in its representation of sexual women sometime in the 1960s. Diane E. Marting offers a detailed analysis of this development." "Her central idea is that in Latin American narrative women's desires were portrayed as dangerous throughout the twentieth century, despite the heroic character of the "newly sexed woman" of the sixties. She argues that women's sexuality in fiction was transformed because it symbolized the many other changes occurring in women's lives regarding their families, workplaces, societies, and nations. Female sexual desire offered an ever present threat to male privilege."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

863/.6409352042/098

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ7082.N7

LC item number

M354 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography