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
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
11 - Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
from Part II - Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
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
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter briefly explores the rich tradition of literature written and published by women in the Spanish Antilles, Cuba and Puerto Rico, in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. It focuses on the ways these women engaged with their countries' distinctive island identities from a political and gendered perspective within the broader framework of the Hispanic literary and cultural tradition. The genre most cultivated by women was poetry, although the most celebrated woman writer of the period, the Cuban Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, was acclaimed as a dramatist as well as a poet, and wrote novels and an autobiography. The Spanish Constitution of 1837 guaranteed freedom of the press, and it was during the progressive General Espartero's regency that Avellaneda's novel, Sab, and her first book of poems, Poesias, were published. Sab remains exceptionally transgressive for its times.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 181 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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