Gender and the Politics of Literature
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Ed. María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente
Introduction
Gertrudis the Great: First Abolitionist and Feminist in the Americas and Spain
María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente
Part I: The Transnational Press and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
- A Transnational Figure: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and the American Press
María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente
Part II: Sab (1841): The First Anti-Slavery and Feminist Novel
- Nothing to Hide: Sab as an Anti-Slavery and Feminist Novel
Julia C. Paulk - Picturing Cuba: Romantic Ecology in Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841)
Adriana Méndez Rodenas - Nation, Violence, Memory: Interrupting the Foundational Discourse in Sab
Jenna Leving Jacobson
Part III: Guatimozín and the Rewriting of the Conquest
- Rewriting History and Reconciling Cultural Differences in Guatimozín
Rogelia Lily Ibarra - Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and her View of the Colonial Past
Mariselle Meléndez
Part IV: Travel Writing and Folk Tales
- The Presence of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in the Three Tradiciones from her Última excursión por los Pirineos (1859)
Catharina Vallejo
Part V: A Writer for All Times: The Plays, Poems, and Love Letters of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
- The Making of Leoncia: Romanticism, Tragedy, and Feminism
Alexander Selimov - Rebellious Apprentice Devours Maestros: Is it Hunger or Vengeance?
Mary Louise Pratt - Tu amante ultrajada no puede ser tu amiga (Your Scorned Lover Can't Be Your Friend): Editing Tula's Love Letters
Emil Volek
Afterword
Of the Margins and the Center: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Lesley Wiley