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 1: The Transnational Press and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

1. A Transnational Figure: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and the American Press

María C. Albin, Megan Corbin, and Raúl Marrero-Fente



Part 2: Sab (1841): The First Anti-Slavery and Feminist Novel

2. Nothing to Hide: Sab as an Anti-Slavery and Feminist Novel

Julia C. Paulk

3. Picturing Cuba: Romantic Ecology in Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841)

Adriana Méndez Rodenas

4. Nation, Violence, Memory: Interrupting the Foundational Discourse in Sab

Jenna Leving Jacobson



Part 3: Guatimozín and the Rewriting of the Conquest

5. Rewriting History and Reconciling Cultural Differences in Guatimozín

Rogelia Lily Ibarra

6. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and her View of the Colonial Past

Mariselle Meléndez



Part 4: Travel Writing and Folk Tales

7. The Presence of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in the Three Tradiciones from her Última excursión por los Pirineos (1859)

Catharina Vallejo



Part 5: A Writer for All Times: The Plays, Poems, and Love Letters of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

8. The Making of Leoncia: Romanticism, Tragedy, and Feminism

Alexander Selimov

9. Rebellious Apprentice Devours Maestros: Is it Hunger or Vengeance?

Mary Louise Pratt

10. 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

Contributors

Cover Image

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz