The Imaginary in the Writing of Latin American Author Amanda Labarca Hubertson (1886-1975)

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  • Author : Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval
  • Release Date : 2004
  • Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 260
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 93,93 MB
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The Imaginary in the Writing of Latin American Author Amanda Labarca Hubertson (1886-1975) by Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval PDF Summary

Book Description: This thematic study is the only in-depth investigation into the fictional and testimonial literature of Amanda Labarca Hubertson, Chilean educator, reformer, and promoter of women's rights. These imaginary writings include such little-known works as her semi-autobiographical novel, En tierras extranas (1915), the short novel, La lampara maravillosa (1921), the collection of short stories entitled Cuentos a mi senor, the testimonial Meditaciones and Meditaciones breves (1928-1931), and the marginal journal fragments, Desvelos en el alba (1945). A preliminary chapter also addresses the controversy surrounding her published literary thesis, La novela castellana de hoi [sic, 1906]. The study corrects some interpretive errors regarding earlier scholarship on Labarca's perceived feminist writings by examining the sexual (gendered) complexities that imprint themselves in Labarca's fictional work and literary criticism. While she may be criticized for omitting any materialist analysis of power, in her literature Labarca attempted to effect change in the social order by pointing out its contradictions. Paradoxically, a close reading of Labarca's dangerously contradictory and yet amorous

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