Introduction: Mapping the Journey: Cultural, Generic and Theoretical Contexts Part 1: Archetype, Fairy Tale, Myth 1. Como agua para chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1984) 2.Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Part 2: Deconstruction: Exile and Gender 3. La nave de los locos/The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi 4. En breve cárcel/Certificate of Absence by Sylvia Molloy Part 3: The Female Body and Agency 5. Arráncame la vida/Tear This Heart Out/Mexican Bolero by Ángeles Mastretta 6. La nada cotidiana/Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoé Valdés
Biography
Emma Staniland is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests include Spanish American women’s writing, Latino/a culture and literature with a particular focus on US writers with roots in the Hispanic Caribbean, genre studies, and feminist literary theory.
