Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives (SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

Changing Women, Changing Nation explores the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives during the span of the last thirty years. This exploration covers Salvadoran texts produced during El Salvador s civil war (1980 1992) and the current postwar period, as well as US-Salvadoran works of the last two decades that engage the topic of migration and second-generation ethnic incorporation into the United States. Rather than think of these two sets of texts as constituting separate literatures, Yajaira M. Padilla conceives of them as part of the same corpus, what she calls trans-Salvadoran narratives works that dialogue with each other and draw attention to El Salvador s burgeoning transnational reality. Through depictions of women in trans-Salvadoran narratives, Padilla elucidates a story of female agency and nationhood that extends beyond El Salvador s national borders and imaginings." Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives......Page 1 Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: Writing Women into Nation, War, and Migration......Page 10 Chapter 1: Campesina as Nation: Feminine Resistance and Power in Manlio Argueta’s Un día en la vida and Cuzcatlán: Donde bate la Mar del Sur......Page 24 Chapter 2: Making Militants and Mothers: Rethinking the Image of the Guerrillera in Women’s Revolutionary Testimonios......Page 52 Chapter 3: Setting La diabla Free: Women, Violence, and the Struggle for Representation in Postwar El Salvador......Page 80 Chapter 4: ¿Hermanas lejanas?: Female Immigrant Subjectivities and the Politics of Voice in the Salvadoran Transnational Imagined Community......Page 102 Chapter 5: Salvadoran-American Sleuthing in the U.S. South and Beyond: McPeek Villatoro’s Romilia Chacón Mysteries Series......Page 132 Conclusion......Page 162 Notes......Page 168 Works Cited......Page 180 Index......Page 192 Campesina as nation : feminine resistance and power in Manlio Argueta's Un día en la vida and Cuzcatlán : donde bate la mar del sur Making militants and mothers : rethinking the image of the guerillera in women's revolutionary testimonios Setting la diabla free : women, violence, and the struggle for representation in postwar El Salvador Hermanas lejanas : female immigrant subjectivities and the politics of voice in the Salvadoran transnational community Salvadoran-American sleuthing in the US south and beyond : Marcos McPeek Villatoro's Romilia Chacón mystery series.