Table of Contents

Contributors Introduction: Looking for the roots of wings - Susan Bassnett 1. Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979): Precursor - John King 2. Maria Luisa Bombal: Biography of a Story-Telling Woman - Marjorie Agosin 3. Speaking with Many Voices: The Poems of Alejandra Pizarnik - Susan Bassnett 4. Confronting Myths of Oppression: The Short Stories of Rosario Castellanos - Chloe Furnival 5. Clarice Lispector: An Intinuitive Approach to Fiction - Giovanni Pontiero 6. 'I Will be a Scandal in your Boat': Women Poets and the Tradition - Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 7. Images of Women in Cuba's Post-Revolutionary Narrative - Nissa Torrents 8. Subverting the Dominant Text: Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego - Juan Bruce-Novoa 9. One Hundred Years of Unread Writing: Soledad Acosta, Elisa Mujica and Marvel Moreno - Montserrat Ordonez 10. Griselda Gambaro and the Female Dramatist: The Audacious Trespasser - Catherine Boyle 11. Assailing the Heights of Macho Pictures: Women Film-Makers in Contemporary Argentina - John King 12. One Woman's Cinema: Interview with Maria Luisa Bemberg - Nissa Torrents 13. A Place for Eve in the Revolution: Giaconda Belli and Rosario Murillo - Patricia Murray Index

About the Author

Susan Bassnett is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Warwick. Her other books include Translation and Postcolonialism Theory in Practice (co-edited with Harish Trivedi, 1999) and Translation and Global News (with Esperança Bielsa, 2009).