Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women's Writing (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)

✍ Scribed by Benigno Trigo

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and sometimes suicidal melancholy that haunts our culture and society is the result of a terrible fantasy about the way we become ourselves. This fantasy has a matricide at its core, and this matricide will continue to have its depressing effect on us as long as it remains in place and invisible. The authors showcased in this book make visible this fantasy and change it in their works in an effort to bring us out of our depression and melancholy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1 Transformative Witnessing: Clarice Lispector’s Dark Ties......Page 32
2 Maternal Jouissance: Elena Garro’s Recuerdos......Page 48
3 The Mother Tongue: Rosario Ferré’s Ec-centric Writing......Page 72
4 Accidents of Chicana Feminisms: Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Cherríe Moraga......Page 100
5 Memoirs for the Abject: Irene Vilar’s Memoria......Page 120
6 From Revenge to Redemption: Julia Alvarez’s Open Secrets......Page 142
Notes......Page 170
Bibliography......Page 200
B......Page 210
H......Page 211
M......Page 212
S......Page 213
Y......Page 214