Tamesis is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. Carvalho to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2007 by Tamesis, Woodbridge ISBN 978–1–85566–142–4 Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner The right of Susan E. Hart Editorial Board Alan Deyermond Julian Weiss Charles DavisĬONTEMPORARY SPANISH AMERICAN NOVELS BY WOMEN MAPPING THE NARRATIVE Susan Carvalho is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School.įounding Editor J. The analysis identifies spatial negotiation as a mechanism both for cementing and for undermining authority, thus exposing the strategies through which literature constructs and represents power. Margins, borders, liminal spaces, the chora-space, and the body are emphasized as potential sites of transgression. Following the work of Lefebvre and Friedman, the author examines recent works by Spanish America’s most visible women novelists – Angeles Mastretta (Mexico), Isabel Allende (Chile), Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico), Sara Sefchovich (Mexico) and Laura Restrepo (Colombia) – and the ways in which their female protagonists challenge the spatial barriers erected by capitalist hegemony. This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for reading novels, and in particular women’s fiction in Spanish America, with a focus on geoplot, on space rather than time as the narrative engine. As English novelist Elizabeth Bowen has observed: ‘nothing can happen nowhere’. Space is critical to imaginative writing.
Colección Támesis SERIE A: MONOGRAFÍAS, 237Ĭontemporary Spanish American Novels by Women MAPPING THE NARRATIVE
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