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Easy Women

Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

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Easy Women

Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

Addresses the topic of prostitution and "easy women" in Mexican literature. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the "easy woman" in their works. In each example the transgressive woman -- marked by an active sexuality -- serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women's professional and personal lives. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.

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U of Minnesota Press

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ISBN 10

0816631131

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9780816631131

Border Women

Writing from la Frontera

By: Debra A. Castillo,María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba

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Border Women

Writing from la Frontera

By: Debra A. Castillo,María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba

A transnational analysis with an emphasis on gender examines the work of women writers from both sides of the border writing in Spanish, English, or a mixture of the two languages whose work questions the accepted notions of border identities.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816639574

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9780816639571

Redreaming America

Toward a Bilingual American Culture

By: Debra A. Castillo

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Redreaming America

Toward a Bilingual American Culture

By: Debra A. Castillo

What would American literature look like in languages other than English, and what would Latin American literature look like if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A. Castillo explores these questions by highlighting the contributions of Latinos/as writing in Spanish and Spanglish. Beginning with the anonymously published 1826 novel Jicoténcal and ending with fiction published at the turn of the twenty-first century, the book details both the characters' and authors' struggles with how to define an American self. Writers from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico are featured prominently, alongside a sampling of those writers from other Latin American heritages (Peru, Colombia, Chile). Castillo concludes by offering some thoughts on U.S. curricular practice.

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State University of New York Press

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0791484017

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9780791484012

Redreaming America

Toward a Bilingual American Culture

By: Debra A. Castillo

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Toward a Bilingual American Culture

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Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

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SUNY Press

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0791462978

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9780791462973

Easy Women

Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

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Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

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