Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1. Contexts: Women Writers In Neo-Colonial Cuba 1900-1959 2. Mother Nation: Female Subjectivity And National Identity In Cuba 1900-1935 3. Dulce Maria Loynaz: Horror Of House And Home 4. Garcia Marruz: Love Of Mother And God 5. Contexts: Women Writers In Post-Revolutionary Cuba 1959-1992 6. Women's Short Stories: The Feminist And The Female 7. Nancy Morejón, Georgina Herrera, Excilia Saldaña: Mother Africa And Cultural Memory 8. The Mother And Female Desire: Poetry In The 1980s And Early 1990s. 9. Final Comment

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This book develops a theoretically informed feminist reading of key texts and shows how Cuban women's writing can open up new areas of analysis.

About the Author

Catherine Davies is professor of Spanish at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

Carefully interweaves sociopolitical happenings that impacted the Cuban woman as both person and writer... Davies' feminist reading reveals a remarkable group of talented and independent women who persisted against all odds... A must-have volume.
*Choice*

It is quite a feat to have produced a book such as this ...It offer[s] a coherent, thorough and extremely cogent overview of the sociopolitical context of women's writing in Cuba in the twentieth century.
*Mango Season*