Rosario Ferre's literary works follow Adrienne Rich's feminist theory of writing as re-vision. According to Rich, a literary re-vision requires the woman writer and/or critic to re-vise and challenge the nature of all patriarchal structures that have oppressed women throughout the centuries. This re-visionist task has been attempted by Ferre in her literary works, where she exposes the misogyny of the patriarchal ideology embedded in and supported by cultural and social myths. / Rosario Ferre achieves her re-vision of the patriarchal ideology and eternal feminine myth through both her role as a writer and her role as a feminist literary critic. As a feminist literary critic, Ferre carries out this task through different approaches. One approach is the execution of a historical and critical re-vision of the lives and works of several women in her collection of essays, entitled Sitio a Eros. A second approach is the writing of (auto)critical literary reviews, collected in El coloquio de las perras, in order to question the literary canon and image of women in masculine literary texts. As a fiction writer, Ferre achieves her feminist re-vision of the patriarchal ideology and the eternal feminine myth by exposing and challenging them in the short stories and narrative poems from Papeles de Pandora and in her novelette "Maldito amor" or by the re-writing of fairy-tales from a feminist-feminine perspective, offering new feminine and masculine paradigms in her collection of children's stories, "Cuentos maravillosos." / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-02, Section: A, page: 0567. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77358 |
| Contributors | Palmer-Lopez, Sandra M., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 381 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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