The Other Mirror: Women's Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995

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During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, have become international best sellers. The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed reactions: at the same time that the secondary status afforded women's narrative has come to be questioned in many academic circles, some authors are dissociating themselves from women's writing. The essays in this volume address these issues, providing a much needed contribution to the study of women's narrative.

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Ibsen's collection of 14 essays about nine writers offers several theoretically insightful, meticiously informative introductions to novelists who create "the other mirror," that is, invent characters who define themselves by subverting patriarchal norms whenever possible...The essays...offer valuable approaches to many significant Mexican women novelists.-Choice
Provides significant insights into the lives and literary and cultural production of Latin American women writers.-MLN
"Provides significant insights into the lives and literary and cultural production of Latin American women writers."-MLN
"Ibsen's collection of 14 essays about nine writers offers several theoretically insightful, meticiously informative introductions to novelists who create "the other mirror," that is, invent characters who define themselves by subverting patriarchal norms whenever possible...The essays...offer valuable approaches to many significant Mexican women novelists."-Choice

Author Bio

KRISTINE IBSEN is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Author, Text and Reader in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes as well as several articles on Spanish American literature.