Special Issue

CLAIMING VOICES, SEIZING SPACES: LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINA WOMEN WRITERS

Laura J. Beard and Susan Isabel Stein, Guest Editors

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Editor’s Introduction

Laura J. Beard and Susan Isabel Stein

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Barbed Wire Words: Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue

Debra A. Castillo

 

A is for Alphabet, K is for Kabbalah: Luisa Futoransky’s Babelic Metatext

Laura J. Beard

 

Maculine Acts / Anxious Encounters: Sabina Berman’s Entra Villa y una mujer desnuda

Sharon Magnarelli

 

Queer Theory, Sexuality, and Women’s Writing from Latin America: The Example of Christina Peri Rossi

Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal

 

A Politics of the Word: Claribel Alegría’s Album Familiar and Despierta, mi bien, despierta

Mary Jane Treacy

 

A Language to Call My Own: Utopian Space in María Luisa Puba’s Pánico o peligro

Florence Moorhead-Rosenberg

 

Political Meta-Allegory in Sor Juana’s El Divino Narciso

Veronica Grossi

 

Disenchantment and Carnivalization: A Bakhtinian Reading of The Fourth World

Guillermo García-Corales