Spanish American Women's Use of the Word

By Stacey Schlau

Subjects: Women authors, Spanish american literature, history and criticism, Politics and literature, History and criticism, Spanish American prose literature, Women and literature, Literature and society

Description: "Women's participation, both formal and informal, in the creation of what we now call Spanish America is reflected in its literary legacy. Stacey Schlau examines what women from a wide spectrum of classes and races have to say about the societies in which they lived and their place in them.". "Schlau has written the first book to study a historical selection of Spanish American women's writings with an emphasis on social and political themes. Through their words, she offers an alternative vision of the development of narrative genres - critical, fictional, and testimonial - from colonial times to the present."--BOOK JACKET.