Research Catalog

Title

Global issues in contemporary Hispanic women's writing : shaping gender, the environment, and politics / edited by Estrella Cibreiro and Francisca López.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cibreiro, Estrella.
• López, Francisca.

Description

x, 239 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Carolyn Tuttle led a group that interviewed 620 women maquila workers in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The responses from this representative sample refute many of the hopeful predictions made by scholars before NAFTA and reveal instead that little has improved for maquila workers. The women's stories make it plain that free trade has created more low-paying jobs in sweatshops where workers are exploited. Families of maquila workers live in one- or two-room houses with no running water, no drainage, and no heat. The multinational companies who operate the maquilas consistently break Mexican labor laws by requiring women to work more than nine hours a day, six days a week, without medical benefits, while the minimum wage they pay workers is insufficient to feed their families. These findings will make a crucial contribution to debates over free trade, CAFTA-DR, and the impact of globalization. The book visits continuities and discontinuities among Spanish and Latin American women with regards to the ways in which they approach writing as a political weapon: to express ecological concerns; to denounce social injustice; to re-articulate existing paradigms, such as local versus global, violence versus pacifism, immigrant versus citizen; and to raise consciousness about racist, sexist, and other discriminatory practices. Such use of writing as an instrument of ethical and political exploration is underlined throughout the different articles in the volume as the authors emphasize pluralism, social justice, gender equality, tolerance, and political representation. This book offers readers a broad perspective on the multiple ways in which Hispanic women writers are explicitly exploring the social, political, and, economic realities of our era and integrating global perspectives and gender concerns into their writing, highlighting the unprecedented level of sociopolitical engagement practiced by 20th and 21st century Hispanic women writers.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 7

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 7.

Subjects

• Women and literature > Latin America
• Gender identity in literature
• Spanish American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women and literature > Spain
• Spanish literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Ecofeminism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca Lopez -- Policing Social Injustice: Alicia Gimenez Bartlett's Petra Delicado Series / Sandra Kingery -- Gender and Genre Issues in Dulce Chacon's Cielos de barro / Wesley J. Weaver III -- Dialogue of Genres: Dystopian Buenos Aires in El nino pez (2004) / by Lucia Puenzo, Salvador Oropesa -- Writing for My Daughter, My Mother, My Grandmother: The Power of Words Against Women's Violence in Juana Castro's Del color de los rios / Ana Maria Osan -- La Llorona: A Cultural Myth of the Latin American Woman in the Twenty-first Century / Melvy Portocarrero -- Laura Restrepo's Delirio: A Refoundational Novel / Dinora Cardoso -- For a Better World: Alicia Puleo's Critical Ecofeminism / Roberta Johnson -- Environmental Crisis and the Male Culture in Marie Arana's Cellophane / Amrita Das -- The Ecological Dimension of Natalia Toledo Paz's Poetry / Ida Kozlowska-Day -- Toward a Theatre Without Borders: The Global Context of Itziar Pascual's Dramaturgy / John P. Gabriele -- In the Beginning there was Violence: Marvel Moreno's En Diciembre llegaban las brisas or the Genesis of Power / Nadia Celis -- Transcending a Watery Border: Unsettled Bodies and In-Between Subjects in Por la via de Tarifa / Maria Difrancesco -- Writing an Engaged Novel in the Network Society: Belen Gopegui, Systemic Narratives, and Globalization / Luis I. Pradanos.

Call Number

JFE 16-212

ISBN

• 9780415626941 (hbk)
• 0415626943 (hbk)
• 9780203082096 (ebk)
• 0203082095 (ebk)

LCCN

2012020159

OCLC

778425067

Title

Global issues in contemporary Hispanic women's writing : shaping gender, the environment, and politics / edited by Estrella Cibreiro and Francisca López.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 7

Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 7.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cibreiro, Estrella.

López, Francisca.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-212