Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin America

Description

"In this innovative book, Vicky Unruh explores how women writers of the vanguard period often gained access to literary life as public performers. Using a novel, interdisciplinary synthesis of performance theory, she shows how Latin American women's work in theatre, poetry declamation, song, dance, oration, witty display, and bold journalistic self-portraiture helped them craft their public personas as writers and shaped their singular forms of analytical thought, cultural critique, and literary style. Concentrating on eleven writers from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, Unruh demonstrates that, as these women identified themselves as instigators of change rather than as passive muses, they unleashed penetrating critiques of projects for social and artistic modernization in Latin America."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

• Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin America: intervening actsUniversity of Texas Press2005-01-01
• Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin AmericaUniversity of Texas Press2006
• Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin Americade Gruyter GmbH, Walter2009-01-01
• Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin AmericaUniversity of Texas Press2011-01-01