Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women's Writing

by Benigno Trigo

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Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and sometimes suicidal melancholy that haunts our culture and society is the result of a terrible fantasy about the way we become...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1403964696

ISBN13:9781403964694

Release Date:January 2006

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:205 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 8.5"

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