Silent Feminine

Araceli Colín Cabrera is psychoanalyst and independent researcher.

This enthralling book displays a polyphony of voices, analyzing through different perspectives the silence and the silencing of women in Latin America. The reader is not only intellectually but emotionally engaged with the historical context of this silence and its traumatic effects, as she is introduced to women writers, and artists, who addressed that unperceived issue in the aftermath of socio-political upheavals. From my perspective, The Silent Feminine has opened the field for an enlightening dialogue with its authors.

• Chapter 1: The Silencing of Women and the Silent Feminine in Literature About WarAraceli Colín CabreraTranslated By Natalia Rivas ColínChapter 2: Nellie Campobello: Writing, Testimony, and Pedagogies Against SilenceCathia Huerta Arellano Translated By Maricruz Ocampo GuerreroChapter 3: Feminine Jouissance in Elena Garro’s Writing: Rescuing Silent, Fertile DifferenceFlor de María Gamboa Solís Translated By Mariana Sandoval GamboaChapter 4: Autoviudas: Prejudiced Justice for The Ladies of DeathNubia Carolina Rovelo Escoto And Francisco Javier de Santiago HerreroTranslated By Maricruz Ocampo GuerreroChapter 5: Feminine Voices as An Exploration of The UnfathomableAlejandra Cantoral Pozo And Alfredo Emilio Huerta ArellanoTranslated By Helen HarperChapter 6: Destinies of Silence, Silence of Destiny: “The Good Daughter” By Almudena GrandesMario Orozco Guzmán And Hada Soria EscalanteChapter 7: Creative Silence in the Works of Frida KahloDelphine Scotto di VettimoTranslated By Vic