A fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space for researchers and students alike.
This multidisciplinary, comparative monograph sheds new light on the works of well-known figures such as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral while recuperating artists that remain virtually unknown, such as Bolivian sculptor Marina Núñez del Prado. The scope and comparative approach of the book—encompassing both literary and visual arts from a variety of countries within Latin America—allows it to meet the needs of a broad range of scholars across disciplines and assures that the text serves researchers and students alike. By analyzing the contributions of eight contemporaneous women—four writers and four plastic artists—it reveals how they constructed and conceived of their identities as cultural practitioners through distinctly spatial tactics. Through discussion of their work within a transnational context, The Space of Latin American Women Modernists positions these Latin American women practitioners within a broader narrative of modernism from which they have often remained absent.
By:
Camilla Sutherland Imprint: University of Wales Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 18mm
ISBN:9781837721085 ISBN 10: 1837721084 Series:Iberian and Latin American Studies Pages: 264 Publication Date:29 May 2024 Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Negotiating Space 1. Upon the Threshold: Reconsidering the Modernist Home 2. Mother Earth Remapped 3. Cosmopolitan Promises: Travel, Exile and Alterity 4. ‘On the margins of the fray’: Situating Modernist Women in Print Media Afterword Bibliography
Camilla Sutherland is assistant professor of Spanish Culture and Literature, and co-director of the Mexico Study Centreat the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.