Crear o criar: Maternity and Choice Feminism in Meruane's Fruta podrida and Contra los hijos.
Scholars of Latin American literature have long studied the topic of motherhood, but the paucity of literary representations of pregnancy itself has resulted in a tradition of what we might call postpartum criticism. Moreover, in most of this critical work, pronatalism (a hegemonic belief that human...
| Published in: | Hispanic Review Vol. 87; no. 3; pp. 355 - 377 |
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