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- Title: Ethics, Eros, And Necessity: Rosario Castellanos on the Two Simones
- Author : Sharon Larisch
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 110 KB
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Many theories of the essay focus on the provisional, multivoiced nature of the genre. Despite its seemingly unfixed nature, however, the essay is still subject to what Mary Louise Pratt has termed the "structures of exclusion and the structures of value" (11) that constitute a canon. As Doris Meyer's survey of anthologies of Latin American essays makes abundantly clear, certain essays are accorded more value than others (3-4). These come to constitute a particular tradition that, as a subject of valuation, is tied up with larger economic and axiological concerns. The canonical Latin America essay tradition dates from the mid-nineteenth century, when the essay in its currently accepted literary form began to address problems of independence and reform (Meyer 2). The predominant works of this canon fall under the rubric of what Pratt has termed the "criollo identity essay": "a series of texts written over the past 180 or so years by criollo (i.e., elite Euro-American) men, whose topic is the nature of criollo identity and culture, particularly in relation to Europe and North America" (14). The essay tradition in Mexico was no exception. In the twentieth century Justo Sierra, the members of the Ateneo de la Juventud (including such writers as Jose Vasconcelos, Antonio Caso and Pedro Henriquez Urena) as well as the historian Daniel Cosio Villegas, and the poet and essayist Octavio Paz all took up this topic in various tenors. Pratt, however, identifies during the same time period a second strain of essays: the "gender essay," focused on "the status and reality of women in modern society"(15). These texts "can be read as the women's side of an ongoing negotiation as to what women's social and political entitlements are and ought to be in the postindependence era" (16). Pratt singles out two facets of the gender essay: the catalogue of women's participation in public life and the "analytical commentary on the spiritual and social condition of women," the latter including prominently the rethinking of the relation of sentiment to intellectuality (Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's essay "La mujer" is Pratt's test case). Mexico's feminist journalistic tradition in the twentieth century conforms to this outline. The Mexican feminist movement was allied initially with the revolutionary movement of 1910, and Mexican gender essays tend to center on women's political and social rights and privileges in the larger post-revolutionary economy. Access to print was another fundamental issue, and the first half of the twentieth century saw the publication of a number of newspapers written by women.
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