This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. As early as the seventeenth century, writers such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, attained widespread acclaim that women´s literature was inaugurated in earnest, notably with the work of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Many of these women have attained the hisghest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won de Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical attention of...
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