A place in the sun? : women writers in Twentieth-century Cuba

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Author:

Davies, Catherine, 1952-

ISBN:

9781856495417

9781856495424

Personal Author:

Davies, Catherine, 1952-

Publication Information:

London ; New Jersey : Zed Books ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, c1997

Physical Description:

vii, 247 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: ''Twixt the Green Sea and the Azured Vault' -- 1. Contexts: Women Writers in Neo-colonial Cuba, 1900-59 -- 2. Mother Nation: Female Subjectivity and National Identity in Cuba, 1900-35 -- 3. Dulce Maria Loynaz: Horror of House and Home -- 4. Fina Garcia Marruz: Love of Mother and God -- 5. Contexts: Women Writers in Post-revolutionary Cuba, 1959-92 -- 6. Women's Short Stories: the Feminist and the Female -- 7. Mother Africa and Cultural Memory: Nancy Morejon, Georgina Herrera, Excilia Saldana -- 8. The Mother and Female Desire: Poetry in the 1980s and Early 1990s -- Final Comment: One Hundred Years of Hard-won Independence: Women Writers and the Special Period.

Subject Term:

Cuban literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Cuban literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

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Summary

Women have published a rich and varied selection of work in Cuba throughout the twentieth century. Their writings give us a crucial insight into the recent history of that country. In this book, Catherine Davies develops a sophisticated and theoretically informed feminist reading of works by authors such as Dulce María Loynaz and the poet Fina García Marruz who developed their styles in the pre-revolutionary period and black and mulatto poets such as Nancy Morejón, Georgina Herrera and Excilia Saldaña from the post-1959 socialist era.

The author reads these key texts in ways that show how women's writing can open up areas that resist alignment into the 'grand narratives' - of liberalism, Marxism - that have usually dominated interpretations of Cuban culture. A major theoretical intervention into debates around representation, the book will be necessary reading for students and academics in post-colonial theory and women's studies, as well as in Spanish, Latin-American and comparative literature.