Anne Lambright

Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America Anne Lambright

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in cloth. Publisher Marketing: The city is not only built of towers of steel and glass; it is a product of culture. It plays an especially important role in Latin America, where urban areas hold a near-monopoly on resources and are home to an expanding population. The essays in this collection assert that women s views of the city are unique and revealing. For the first time, Unfolding the City addresses issues of gender and the urban in literature particularly lesser-known works of literature written by Latin American women from Mexico City, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. The contributors propose new mappings of urban space; interpret race and class dynamics; and describe Latin American urban centers in the context of globalization. Contributors: Debra A. Castillo, Cornell U; Sandra Messinger Cypess, U of Maryland; Guillermo Irizarry, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Naomi Lindstrom, U of Texas, Austin; Jacqueline Loss, U of Connecticut; Dorothy E. Mosby, Mount Holyoke College; Angel Rivera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lidia Santos, Yale U; Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers U; Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, U of Michigan; Gareth Williams, U of Michigan. Anne Lambright is associate professor of modern languages and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Elisabeth Guerrero is associate professor of Spanish at Bucknell University." Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Lambright, Anne Anne Lambright is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in the Hispanic Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She earned her Ph. D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus is on contemporary Latin American Literature, Andean literature, indigenismo, and Latin American women s writing, topics on which she has published several articles and books. She is the author of Creating the Hybrid Intellectual: Subject, Space, and the Feminine in the Narrative of Jose Maria Arguedas and co-author of Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America (2007), with Elisabeth Guerrero. In addition, she is the co-author of Metas: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency (2008). Contributor Bio:  Guerrero, Elisabeth Elisabeth Guerrero is Associate Professor of Spanish at Bucknell University. She is co-editor with Anne Lambright of "Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America" (2007). Her essays on Mexican, Argentine, and Latino/a literature have appeared in the journals "Latin American Literary Review," "Monographic Review/Revista Monografica," "Hispanofila," "Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana," the "Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies," the "Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature," and in the book "Latino/a Writers,"