Changing women, changing nation: female agency, nationhood, and identity in trans-Salvadoran narratives 978-1-4384-4277-8, 1438442777, 9781438442785

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Changing women, changing nation: female agency, nationhood, and identity in trans-Salvadoran narratives
 978-1-4384-4277-8, 1438442777, 9781438442785

Table of contents :
Content: 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.

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