Research Catalog

Title

Mothers and daughters in post-revolutionary Mexican literature / Teresa M. Hurley.

Author

Hurley, Teresa M., 1953-

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Támesis, 2003.

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Description

viii, 212 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Nellie Campobello, Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro and Elena Poniatowska, all born in the first half of the twentieth century, explore in a unique genre - a combination of memoir, autobiography and historical novel - some of the myths about women current in Mexico at the time.
• Prime among these is that of the madre abnegada; the self-sacrificing mother, devoted exclusively to her children at the expense of her own fulfilment. In this study the mothers' dissenting voices are exposed, as are the feelings of the daughters who appear devoted to their mothers but feel resentment at what they perceive as their mother's emotional distance.
• The antithesis of the madre abnegada is the mujer mala, the whore, a notion the author also questions by revealing the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship, through which women may perpetuate their own oppression."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 197

Uniform Title

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 197.

Subject

• Campobello, Nellie, 1900-1986
• Castellanos, Rosario
• Garro, Elena
• Poniatowska, Elena
• Campobello, Nellie
• Mexican fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Mothers and daughters in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index.

Contents

Women and writing in Mexico -- Mother, memory and multivocality in Nellie Campobello's Cartucho and Las manos de mamá -- Sensibility and subalternity : memory and mother-figures in Rosario Castellanos's Balún-Canán -- Multivocality and gendered time in Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir -- Mother/country and identity in Elena Poniatowska's La 'flor de lis'.

ISBN

1855660903 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003006703

OCLC

51965249

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library