Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- 29 Market and Nonconsumer Narratives
- 30 Per-verse Latin American Women Poets
- 31 Beyond the Book
- 32 Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
- 33 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
29 - Market and Nonconsumer Narratives
From the “Levity of Being” to Abjection
from Part IV - Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- 29 Market and Nonconsumer Narratives
- 30 Per-verse Latin American Women Poets
- 31 Beyond the Book
- 32 Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
- 33 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Approaching the archive of fictions produced by women writers in the twenty-first century as a system alleviates the limitations of generational criticism, particularly because a large cohort of writers born in the 1940s and 1950s remain highly visible in the present-day literary scene. By observing the coexistent group of women publishing united by a literary landscape that is increasingly global, subject to the market, and integrated with new technologies, one can trace an ever-expansive map in which certain symptoms recurrently surface. This chapter "symptomatic" or "axiomatic" texts that operate as a representative of certain tendencies of the archive. Through the hermeneutic of the close-up, it sketches out several salient tendencies of nonconsumer narrative. In this sense, the texts examined in the chapter are only examples and indicators of the vast complexity of the constellation of women's writing produced during the last two decades.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 486 - 503Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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