Latin-American Women Writers

<p><b>Describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present ironize masculinist classicist and racist cliches in their narratives.</b></p><p>This book provides a much needed grouping of Latin-American women emphasizing their differences-the diversity of their cultural backgrounds socio-economic conditions and literary strategies-as well as their commonalities. Humble writers of the Spanish and Portuguese testimonio and sophisticated postmodernist authors alike are contextualized within a matriheritage of founding discourses.</p>