Gender and Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850 - 1910
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feminism
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Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America
Gender identity
History and criticism
identity
Ignacio Altamirano
Jorge Isaacs
Juana Manuela Gorriti
Latin American History
Latin American literature
Lee Skinner
literature
Modern
modernism
Modernity
Philosophy
rhetoric
Soledad Acosta de Samper
Spanish American
studies
women
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- ISBN 9780813062846
- Weight: 451g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This ambitious volume surveys an expansive and diverse range of countries across the nineteenth-century Spanish-colonized Americas, showing how both men and women used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women in the modern, utopian nation. Lee Skinner argues that the rhetorical nature of modernity made it possible for readers and writers to project and respond to multiple contradictory perspectives on gender roles.
With special attention to public and private space, domesticity, education, technology, and work, Skinner identifies gender as a central concern at every level of society. She looks at texts by Clorinda Matto de Turner, Jorge Isaacs, Soledad Acosta de Samper, Ignacio Altamirano, Juana Manuela Gorriti, and many others, ranging from novels and essays to newspaper articles and advertisements.
This book offers a complete picture of how writers thought about gender roles, modernization, and national identity during Spanish America’s uneven transition toward modernity.
With special attention to public and private space, domesticity, education, technology, and work, Skinner identifies gender as a central concern at every level of society. She looks at texts by Clorinda Matto de Turner, Jorge Isaacs, Soledad Acosta de Samper, Ignacio Altamirano, Juana Manuela Gorriti, and many others, ranging from novels and essays to newspaper articles and advertisements.
This book offers a complete picture of how writers thought about gender roles, modernization, and national identity during Spanish America’s uneven transition toward modernity.
Lee Skinner is associate professor of Spanish at Claremont McKenna College, USA. She is the author of History Lessons: Refiguring the Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel in Spanish America.
