Unfolding the City

The city is not only built of towers of steel and glass; it is a product of culture. It plays an especially important role in Latin America where urban areas hold a near-monopoly on resources and are home to an expanding population. The essays in this collection assert that women's views of the city are unique and revealing. For the first time Unfolding the City addresses issues of gender and the urban in literature-particularly lesser-known works of literature-written by Latin American women from Mexico City Santiago and Buenos Aires. The contributors propose new mappings of urban space; interpret race and class dynamics; and describe Latin American urban centers in the context of globalization.Contributors: Debra A. Castillo Cornell U; Sandra Messinger Cypess U of Maryland; Guillermo Irizarry U of Massachusetts Amherst; Naomi Lindstrom U of Texas Austin; Jacqueline Loss U of Connecticut; Dorothy E. Mosby Mount Holyoke College; Angel Rivera Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lidia Santos Yale U; Marcy Schwartz Rutgers U; Daniel Noemi Voionmaa U of Michigan; Gareth Williams U of Michigan.Anne Lambright is associate professor of modern languages and literature at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. Elisabeth Guerrero is associate professor of Spanish at Bucknell University.