Session Details

Friday, 29 December

491. New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Writers

1:45–3:00 p.m., Anthony, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900

Presiding: Ana Peluffo, Univ. of California, Davis

1. “Literary Orphan Annie: Women’s Ethical Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Peru,” Armanda Lewis, Columbia Univ.

2. “El álbum cubano de lo bueno . . . lo bello y lo putrefacto: Consciousness Raising via the Rotting Corpse in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda,” Nancy Anne LaGreca, Univ. of Oklahoma

3. “Inventing Feminine Authority: Reading and Writing Juana Manuela Gorriti’s Cocina ecléctica,” Elisabeth Lewis Austin, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Respondent: Ana Peluffo

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