SP13 Gender Topics
Fragment from “El tapiz de la creación” which appears in Cristina Peri Rossi’s La nave de los locos
It is possible to study gender-related issues (both femininities and masculinities) under a wide range of topics. More specifically, topics which encourage the study of works by women, either on their own or in comparison with men's work, are: Escritura femenina, Popular Culture, La novela de la dictadura, and Queer Textualities. There are also individual author/artist questions (Section B) on the work of Cristina Peri Rossi, Luisa Valenzuela, Laura Restrepo, Diamela Eltit and Doris Salcedo. This page brings together some resources and links for gender-related topics for SP13.
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Lecture notes handouts:
- Handout for the lecture on Luisa Valenzuela
- See also the handouts on Allende and Esquivel in the Popular Culture topic
- Lecture handout (including bibliography) on Laura Restrepo
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On-line resources
- Luisa Valenzuela's own website (includes interviews and articles by Valenzuela)
- Isabel Allende's own website, including an FAQ under Curiosities (Allende does not appear in Section C, but her work can be studied under the Magic Realism and Popular Culture topics)
- An article on the work of Cristina Peri Rossi (and Marta Traba), "The Politics of Desire", for the Novela de la dictadura topic
- The pages of literatura.org on Luisa Valenzuela, including extracts from her works
- The on-line Encyclopaedia of Latin American Women Writers
