Allegories of Transgression and Transformation

Mary Beth Tierney-Tello is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Wheaton College.

• Acknowledgments Introduction. Women Writing Through and Against Dictatorship:Authority, Authorship, and the Authoritarian State Resistance to Authorities: Politics, Gender, and Women's WritingThe Crisis of Representation: Allegorical Possibilities and the Will to Meaning 1. Defiance and Its Discontents: Nélida Piñon's A Casa da Paixâo Defying the Patriarch's Plots: Transgression as Narrative StrategyThe Patriarch's Puppet: Jerônimo and Marta's Critique of MasculinityMarta's Script: Re-Plotting Gender and the Struggle for Authorship"She saw her misfortune": An Allegory of Women's Writing 2. Treason and Transformation: Re-Writing the Margins in Diamela Eltit's Por la patria Por la patria: Writing on the Dark SideLiterary Experimentalism: Por la patria's Political Erotics of LanguageTextual/Sexual Transgression: Writing the Other Side of the Oedipal DramaRe-Writing the Margins: Transgression and the Maternal Body 3. From Silence to Subjectivity: Reading and Writing in Reina Roffè's La rompiente Subject to Censorship: Reading and Writing (in) SilenceIn the Margins of Authorship: Subjectivity in ProductionThe Personal and the Political: Re-Emodying the Social Subject 4. Exile and a New Dream of Symmetry: Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos The Possibilities of Exile: Loss, Otherness, and the Opportunity for DifferenceFrom National Identity to World Citizen: Exile and the Socio-Political ContextA Dreadful Dissymmetry: Exile and the Gen(d)eric ConditionMasculine Impotence and a New Dream of Symmetry Conclusion. Transgression and Transformation: Aesthetics, Politics and (Post-) Authoritarian Contexts Notes Bibliography Index

"I believe this is an important contribution to the field of Latin American literature especially in the way in which political thinking and ideology are a part of the Latin American women's literary imagination. I strongly believe that the dissemination of this work is of great significance to the academic communities." — Marjorie Agosin, Wellesley College"This book contains brilliant analyses of extremely complex texts in the context of political and social exigencies in Latin America and in relation to issues of gender difference and sexuality. It is astute about gender, and about literary theory (particularly theory of allegory). It is both sophisticated in its analysis and written in an accessible manner. Outstanding." — Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota