Changing Women, Changing Nation

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Changing Women, Changing Nation
Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives

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Yajaira M. Padilla - Author

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 199 pages

Release Date: July 2012

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4277-8

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 199 pages

Release Date: January 2013

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4276-1

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Summary

Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.

Changing Women, Changing Nation explores the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives during the span of the last thirty years. This exploration covers Salvadoran texts produced during El Salvador’s civil war (1980–1992) and the current postwar period, as well as US-Salvadoran works of the last two decades that engage the topic of migration and second-generation ethnic incorporation into the United States. Rather than think of these two sets of texts as constituting separate literatures, Yajaira M. Padilla conceives of them as part of the same corpus, what she calls “trans-Salvadoran narratives”—works that dialogue with each other and draw attention to El Salvador’s burgeoning transnational reality. Through depictions of women in trans-Salvadoran narratives, Padilla elucidates a “story” of female agency and nationhood that extends beyond El Salvador’s national borders and imaginings.

“Changing Women, Changing Nation is a project of intellectual significance. Evidencing great mastery of theory, while prioritizing the concrete analysis of specific texts, Padilla reframes our understanding of the impact of the Central American imaginary not only in its place of origin, but also within mainstream US culture.” — Arturo Arias, author of Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America

Yajaira M. Padilla is Associate Professor of Central American and US Latina/o Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kansas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing Women into Nation, War, and Migration

1. Campesina as Nation: Feminine Resistance and Power in Manlio Argueta’s Un día en la vida and Cuzcatlán: Donde bate la Mar del Sur

2. Making Militants and Mothers: Rethinking the Image of the Guerrillera in Women’s Revolutionary Testimonios

3. Setting La diabla Free: Women, Violence, and the Struggle for Representation in Postwar El Salvador

4. ¿Hermanas lejanas?: Female Immigrant Subjectivities and the Politics of Voice in the Salvadoran Transnational Imagined Community

5. Salvadoran-American Sleuthing in the U.S. South and Beyond: McPeek Villatoro’s Romilia Chacón Mystery Series

Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Related Subjects

Hispanic Studies
Latin American Studies
Literary Criticism
Women's Studies

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