Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America: Intervening Acts

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c o n t e n t s abbreviations ix acknowledgments xi introduction The “Fatal Fact” of the New Woman Writer in Latin America, 1920s–1930s 1 chapter 1 Alfonsina Storni’s Misfits: A Critical Refashioning of Poetisa Aesthetics 30 chapter 2 Walking Backwards: Victoria Ocampo’s Scenes of Intrusion 52 chapter 3 No Place Like Home: Norah Lange’s Art of Anatomy 72 chapter 4 Choreography with Words: Nellie Campobello’s Search for a Writer’s Pose 92 chapter 5 “Dressing and Undressing the Mind”: Antonieta Rivas Mercado’s Unfinished Performance 115 chapter 6 Acts of Literary Privilege in Havana: Mariblanca Sabas Alomá and Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta 135 chapter 7 Ad-libs by the Women of Amauta: Magda Portal and María Wiesse 165 chapter 8 A Refusal to Perform: Patrícia Galvão’s Spy on the Wall 195 notes 222 references 246 index 267 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...