Driven up the Wall: Maternity and Literature in Contemporary Women Writers

Analysis of the anguish a woman suffers as a consequence of the physical, emotional, psychological, and identity changes she is compelled to undergo when she assumes the role of mother. The narratives with which the present essay is concerned are by two acclaimed Latin American authors: the Argentin...

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Autor: Noguerol Jiménez, Francisca
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
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Palabra clave:Latin American Literature
Motherhood
Women Writers
Contemporary Narrative
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spelling Driven up the Wall: Maternity and Literature in Contemporary Women WritersNoguerol Jiménez, FranciscaLatin American LiteratureMotherhoodWomen WritersContemporary Narrative6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica LiterariasAnalysis of the anguish a woman suffers as a consequence of the physical, emotional, psychological, and identity changes she is compelled to undergo when she assumes the role of mother. The narratives with which the present essay is concerned are by two acclaimed Latin American authors: the Argentine Ana María Shua ("Como una buena madre" [Like a Good Mother, 1988] and "Te tapa los ojos" [She Covers Your Eyes, 19921) and the Chilean Pía Barros (''Artemisa" [ 1990) and "Madres" [Mothers, 2009]). Prominent in both writers is the assumption of the grotesque as a suitable category both for denouncing the feeling of alienness provoked by giving birth, and for revealing the alienation of which woman is the object when she undertakes a function that others have normativized, and from which she escapes through a violence that sometimes degenerates into outright madness.Routledge202520252013info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/167130reponame:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamancainstname:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)InglésAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1671302026-06-07T06:28:51Z
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Noguerol Jiménez, Francisca
Latin American Literature
Motherhood
Women Writers
Contemporary Narrative
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
title_short Driven up the Wall: Maternity and Literature in Contemporary Women Writers
title_full Driven up the Wall: Maternity and Literature in Contemporary Women Writers
title_fullStr Driven up the Wall: Maternity and Literature in Contemporary Women Writers
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Motherhood
Women Writers
Contemporary Narrative
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
topic Latin American Literature
Motherhood
Women Writers
Contemporary Narrative
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
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