Eva Paulino Bueno is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Languages at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She has published widely on Brazilian literature and popular culture, as well as on comparative literature and feminist studies. María Claudia André, a professor of Hispanic American literature and Latin American studies at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, is the author of several works on Latin American women writers.

“highly recommended”—Choice; “essays examines representations of iconic female characters through Spanish and Latin American literary history”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Marjorie Agosín      Introduction      I. WOMAN AS NATURE1. Gender and Nation from Past to Present: From María to MacabéaHÉCTOR FERNÁNDEZ-L’HOESTE      2. Intoxicating Outlaws: Dominance and Sexuality in Rómulo Gallegos’ Doña BárbaraPATRICIA L. SWIER      3. Through the Eyes of the Child: The Narrator of Balún CanánJEANIE MURPHY      II. WOMAN IN HISTORY4. María Eugenia Alonso: The Modern Iphigenia Sacrificed to SocietyROSEANNA MUELLER      5. Jesusa in the Context of Testimonios: Witness to an Age or Witness to HerselfLINDA LEDFORD-MILLER      6. La cómplice oficial: Catalina in Angeles Mastretta’s Arráncame la vidaALICE EDWARDS      7. Cultural and Literary Ethos as Represented in García Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda AlbaJEFFREY OXFORD      III. WOMAN AS THE PERVERSE POWERS OF RACE AND SEX8. Blackness, Otherness, Woman(ness): Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles or the Death Throes of Colonial CartagenaLEONORA SIMONOVIS      9. Gabriela, or Freedom Versus MarriageLINDA LEDFORD-MILLER      IV. WOMAN AND THE BURDEN OF GLOBALIZATION10. Sex and the Two Cartagenas in Óscar Collazos’ RencorALDONA POBUTSKY      11. Reality by the Garbage Truckload: The Case of Unica OconitrilloJERRY HOEG      V. WOMAN AS THE UNKNOWABLE OTHER12. Women in Borges: Teodelina Villar in “El Zahir”MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ-LAMARQUE      13. Life Amidst the Ashes: Irene’s Search for Meaning and Connection in María Flora Yáñez’s Las cenizasLISA MERSCHEL      14. Can the Feminine Speak? Narrating Madalena and MacabéaMARCUS V.C. BRASILEIRO      About the Contributors      Index

Eva Paulino Bueno is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Languages at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She has published widely on Brazilian literature and popular culture, as well as on comparative literature and feminist studies. María Claudia André, a professor of Hispanic American literature and Latin American studies at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, is the author of several works on Latin American women writers.

“highly recommended”—Choice; “essays examines representations of iconic female characters through Spanish and Latin American literary history”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Marjorie Agosín      Introduction      I. WOMAN AS NATURE1. Gender and Nation from Past to Present: From María to MacabéaHÉCTOR FERNÁNDEZ-L’HOESTE      2. Intoxicating Outlaws: Dominance and Sexuality in Rómulo Gallegos’ Doña BárbaraPATRICIA L. SWIER      3. Through the Eyes of the Child: The Narrator of Balún CanánJEANIE MURPHY      II. WOMAN IN HISTORY4. María Eugenia Alonso: The Modern Iphigenia Sacrificed to SocietyROSEANNA MUELLER      5. Jesusa in the Context of Testimonios: Witness to an Age or Witness to HerselfLINDA LEDFORD-MILLER      6. La cómplice oficial: Catalina in Angeles Mastretta’s Arráncame la vidaALICE EDWARDS      7. Cultural and Literary Ethos as Represented in García Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda AlbaJEFFREY OXFORD      III. WOMAN AS THE PERVERSE POWERS OF RACE AND SEX8. Blackness, Otherness, Woman(ness): Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles or the Death Throes of Colonial CartagenaLEONORA SIMONOVIS      9. Gabriela, or Freedom Versus MarriageLINDA LEDFORD-MILLER      IV. WOMAN AND THE BURDEN OF GLOBALIZATION10. Sex and the Two Cartagenas in Óscar Collazos’ RencorALDONA POBUTSKY      11. Reality by the Garbage Truckload: The Case of Unica OconitrilloJERRY HOEG      V. WOMAN AS THE UNKNOWABLE OTHER12. Women in Borges: Teodelina Villar in “El Zahir”MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ-LAMARQUE      13. Life Amidst the Ashes: Irene’s Search for Meaning and Connection in María Flora Yáñez’s Las cenizasLISA MERSCHEL      14. Can the Feminine Speak? Narrating Madalena and MacabéaMARCUS V.C. BRASILEIRO      About the Contributors      Index