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
- 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
- 29 Market and Nonconsumer Narratives
- 30 Per-verse Latin American Women Poets
- 31 Beyond the Book
- 32 Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
- 33 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
33 - Afterword
Figures, Texts, and Moments
from Part IV - Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
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
- 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
- 29 Market and Nonconsumer Narratives
- 30 Per-verse Latin American Women Poets
- 31 Beyond the Book
- 32 Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
- 33 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
From the beginning to the present, women writers and artists in Latin America have had to struggle against androcentric and misogynist establishments and institutions that curtail their access and subordinate, confine, devalue, and erase their achievements. Women writers face far more obstacles to achieving success and recognition, often including fierce aggression from male counterparts. Supportive infrastructure, sinecures, inheritances, family and state subsidies, have often sustained male writers and are far less available to women. In the 1980s, the communications theorist Jesus Martin Barbero introduced a powerful conceptual metaphor, the mapa nocturno. After 1900, lights on the mapa nocturno multiply rapidly, especially in cities, where working-class women increasingly gain access to education, literacy, paid work, political agency, social movements, democratic ideology. While the mapa nocturno describes a story of the democratization of writing and expanding access of women to textual and expressive agency, the mapa diurno reveals landscapes strewn with mutilated corpses.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 559 - 574Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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