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Space is critical to imaginative writing. As English novelist Elizabeth Bowen has observed: 'nothing can happen nowhere'. This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for reading novels, and in particular women's fiction in Spanish America, with a focus on geoplot, on space rather than time as the narrative engine. Following the work of Lefebvre and Friedman, the author examines recent works by Spanish America's most visible women novelists - Angeles Mastretta (Mexico), Isabel Allende (Chile), Rosario Ferre (Puerto Rico), Sara Sefchovich (Mexico) and Laura Restrepo (Colombia) - and the ways in which their female protagonists challenge the spatial barriers erected by capitalist hegemony. Margins, borders, liminal spaces, the chora-space, and the body are emphasized as potential sites of transgression. The analysis identifies spatial negotiation as a mechanism both for cementing and for undermining authority, thus exposing the strategies through which literature constructs and represents power. Susan Carvalho is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Full title: Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women
• Subtitle: Mapping the Narrative
• Author: Susan E. Carvalho
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781855661424
• ID: 05115151
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Weight: 472 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 161 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. August 2007

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