M. Betancourt 
Cuban Women Writers 
Imagining a Matria

Betancourt examines women’s writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse.

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A Polyphonic Introduction The Feminist Discourse of Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta: Garzona or Espartana? Lydia Cabrera: Along the Paths of Cryptomemory Cassandra’s Calling: The Poetics of Convocation in the Works of María Elena Cruz Varela From the Baroque to Postmodernism: Parody of the Picaresque in La nada cotidiana (In)Conclusions

Sobre el autor

MADELINE CAMÁRA BETANCOURT is Associate Professor of World Languages at the University of South Florida, USA.