A Rosario Castellanos Reader
An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama
University of Texas Press · Print & ebook · November 1, 1988
Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974.
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- Who it’s for
- Castellanos’s poetry, fiction, essays, and drama appear alongside an introduction to her work.
- Themes
- Women's images, voices, and texts, Women in Mexico
- Genres
- Women Authors Collections, Caribbean & Latin American Collections, Caribbean & Latin American Poetry
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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.
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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."
Castellanos in Translation
Castellanos’s poetry, fiction, essays, and drama appear alongside an introduction to her work.
Come here for
- Major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play
- An introductory essay on Castellanos’s work and semiotic theory
Expect
- Translations attentive to language and cultural nuance
- Many works presented in English for the first time
Where it sits
| Women Authors Collections | 50% |
|---|---|
| Caribbean & Latin American Collections | 34% |
| Caribbean & Latin American Poetry | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Caribbean & Latin American Collections
- Caribbean & Latin American Criticism
- Women Authors Criticism
- Authors
- Rosario Castellanos, Maureen Ahern
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- November 1, 1988
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Women's images, voices, and texts · Women in Mexico
- Reading lane
- Caribbean & Latin American Collections