Hacia una poetica feminista Latino Americana: Ana Maria Rodas, Maria Mercedes Carranza y Gioconda Belli

"This dissertation explores the ways in which three contemporary Latin American women--Ana Maria Rodas from Guatemala, Maria Mercedes Carranza from Colombia, and Gioconda Belli from Nicaragua--deal with the traditional concept ""Woman"" in their poetry. Analysis of their textual responses to that concept shows a rejection of religious and cultural myths related to women through the use of irony, a criticism of expected feminine social postures through the use of humor, a subvertion of traditional associations such as land-woman-object, woman-guilt and woman-virtue, a rejection and assimilation of the female body as the ""dark continent,"" a problematization and reconceptualization of motherhood, and a problematization and a re-writing of nationhood. The most important topics in these women's poetry--women's sexuality, the concept of love, and the concept of nationhood--provide the basis for this analysis."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Spanish

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Kearns, Sofia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Borgeson, Paul W.

• Literature, Latin American
• History, Latin American
• Literature, Caribbean
• Women's Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Kearns, Sofia

Language dc:language

spa

Identifier

AAI9624382
(UMI)AAI9624382

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21546