Violations: Stories of Love by Latin American Women (Latin American Women Writers)

Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything—in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. To women were left the pale love stories that conducted appropriate partners in proper settings to socially acceptable outcomes. So it was in Latin America well into the twentieth century.The stories in this volume announce a dramatic change, a transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of the role—even the nature—of women in this most “feminine” literary tradition. These stories, by exciting new writers as well as by the renowned, are “violations” of the most exhilarating sort, flouting conventions of language, behavior, subject matter, and style to remake and widen our once-narrow view of the literary landscape of Latin America. Here women writers from Mexico and Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, Cuba, Peru, and Uruguay break social, religious, political, and sexual barriers in fiction that is by turns erotic, satirical, shocking, tragic—and always, in its remapping of literary boundaries, deeply and richly entertaining. Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everythingin society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. To women were left the pale love stories that conducted appropriate partners in proper settings to socially acceptable outcomes. So it was in Latin America well into the twentieth century. The stories in this volume announce a dramatic change, a transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of the roleeven the natureof women in this most feminine literary tradition. These stories, by exciting new writers as well as by the renowned, are violations of the most exhilarating sort, flouting conventions of language, behavior, subject matter, and style to remake and widen our once-narrow view of the literary landscape of Latin America. Here women writers from Mexico and Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, Cuba, Peru, and Uruguay break social, religious, political, and sexual barriers in fiction that is by turns erotic, satirical, shocking, tragicand always, in its remapping of literary boundaries, deeply and richly entertaining. A Collection Of Stories Reflects The Transformation Of The Literature Of Love In Latin America, As Well As A Change In The Role And Nature Of Women, Breaking Social, Religious, Political, And Sexual Barriers In Fiction In Works By Elena Poniatowska, Ana Mar A Shua And Other Notable Women Writers. To Love Or To Ingest / Cristina Peri Rossi -- English Love / Margo Glantz -- The Fall / Armonía Somers -- The Sea From The Window / Fanny Buitrago -- Young Amatista / Alicia Steimberg -- Farewell, My Love / Ana María Shua -- Immensely Eunice / Andrea Blanqué -- Golden Days Of A Queen Of Diamonds / Sylvia Lago -- In Florence Ten Years Later / Marilyn Bobes -- Love Story / Elena Poniatowska -- Aunt Mariana / Angeles Mastretta -- Procession Of Love / Nélida Piñon -- Santa Catalina, Arequipa / Teresa Ruiz Rosas -- Impossible Story / Carmen Boullosa -- Spick And Span / Liliana Heker -- End Of The Millennium / Luisa Valenzuela. Edited And With An Introduction By Psiche Hughes ; Foreword By Brian Matthews. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 181-182). Introduction: Violation of the Love Story......Page 16 To Love or to Ingest......Page 22 English Love......Page 30 The Fall......Page 38 The Sea from the Window......Page 54 Young Amatista......Page 60 Farewell, My Love......Page 70 Immensely Eunice......Page 78 Golden Days of a Queen of Diamonds......Page 88 In Florence Ten Years Later......Page 112 Love Story......Page 120 Aunt Mariana......Page 132 Procession of Love......Page 138 Santa Catalina, Arequipa......Page 146 Impossible Story......Page 164 Spick and Span......Page 170 End of the Millennium......Page 178 Source Acknowledgments......Page 202 Contributors......Page 204 Decorum was everything - in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. This title includes stories that announce a dramatic change, a transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of the role of women in this most 'feminine' literary tradition.