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Latina Feminist Thought by Rosario Castellanos First Edition Documenting Gender and Indigenous Rights in Mexico 1988

1988réf. 210731988. Castellanos Rosario. A Rosario Castellanos Reader 1988 a collected English-language anthology that establishes Castellanos as a central twentieth-century Mexican intellectual addressing gender inequality and Indigenous marginalization. Castellanos' work emerged in mid-century Mexico alongside debates over nationalism modernization and the status of Indigenous communities and her writing directly confronts the social hierarchies embedded within both state and cultural institutions. Her essays fiction and poetry articulate the constraints placed on women in Mexican society while simultaneously documenting the structural exclusion of Indigenous peoples positioning her among the most significant feminist and social critics in modern Latin American literature. Castellanos Rosario. A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry Short Fiction Essays and Drama. Austin: University of Texas Press 1988. Edited and translated by Maureen Ahern. First edition. This volume consolidates multiple genres across Castellanos' career many appearing here for the first time in English translation and reflects the growing institutional interest in Latin American feminist and Indigenous discourse during the late twentieth century. The anthology traces the intellectual range of Castellanos' work from literary explorations of identity and alienation to essays engaging directly with systems of patriarchy and colonial legacy in Mexico. Issued by a major academic press at a moment of expanding university curricula in Latin American and women's studies the collection contributed to the integration of Castellanos' writing into English-language scholarship and teaching. Hardcover volume in original dust jacket; 378 pages. Light general wear; both book and dust jacket remain in very good condition. unknown