Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
10 - “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
Gendered Networks in Fin de Siècle Latin America (1898–1920)
from Part II - Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
In the prologue to Oasis de Arte, a travel chronicle by the Peruvian writer Zoila Aurora Caceres, Ruben Dario confesses having little fondness for women of letters. Dario's fixation on the general unattractiveness of the woman of letters reappears in a chronicle entitled 'Estas mujeres'. Dario's writings on female authorship reaffirm the doctrine of the spheres that female writers aimed to subvert through their intellectual activism. Although Latin American women writers of the nineteenth century wrote biographical profiles on colleagues of the other sex with the tacit goal of inserting themselves into the masculine networks that excluded them, the inverse was much less common. In Recuerdos de Espana, Ricardo Palma, a key figure of transatlantic culture, writes of the way in which the bonds of literary fraternity tighten when under threat of gendered diversification. Ricardo Palma's desire to neutralize an identity chaos in which men are feminized and women are masculinized reproduces Dario's distinction between domestic and abnormal female writers.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 164 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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