A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama

Rosario Castellanos

Published by University of Texas Press 1988

A Rosario Castellanos Reader

An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama

Rosario Castellanos
Edited by: Maureen Ahern
Translated by: Maureen Ahern

In the series Texas Pan American Series

https://doi.org/10.7560/770393

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About this book

Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the first time, allowing English-speaking readers to see the depth and range of Castellanos' work.

In her introductory essay, "Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs," Maureen Ahern presents the first comprehensive study of Castellanos' work as a sign or signifying system. This approach through contemporary semiotic theory unites literary criticism and translation as an integral semiotic process. Ahern reveals how Castellanos integrated women's images, bodies, voices, and texts to feminize her discourse and create a plurality of new signs/messages about women in Mexico. Describing this process in The Eternal Feminine, Castellanos observes, "...it's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves."

Author / Editor information

Maureen Ahern, co-editor of Homenaje a Rosario Castellanos and a noted translator, is a professor of Spanish at the Ohio State University.

Reviews

... Castellanos has not been accorded the recognition she deserves as this century's foremost Latin American feminist thinker. [This book] seeks to remedy that.

— Review: Latin American Literature and Art

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Poetry: Silences and Otherness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
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Rosario Castellanos: A Basic Bibliography of Her Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
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Silence Near an Ancient Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 400

eBook

Published: July 6, 2012
ISBN: 9780292747814