Madres e Hijas Melancólicas en Seis Novelas Étnicas de Crecimiento de Autoras Latinas

Summary:

This is the first book that focuses the mother-daughter relationship on female development as the structural theme of the narrative in six ethnic growth novels written by Latina American authors. Quintana Millamoto defends that melancholy -defined here as the feeling of loss or dissatisfaction of maternal love- afflicts the protagonists of the novels analyzed and proposes that writing and other artistic forms help heroines to overcome dissatisfaction in the relationship with the mother. In this sense, Quintana Millamoto argues that the novels depict places of mourning that not only allow the protagonists to heal the conflictive relationships with the maternal figures, but also transcend the devaluation they suffer for being women and for being Latinas.

Author

Maria Esther Quintana Millamoto

Dr. María Esther Quintana Millamoto is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. She served as the Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Hispanic Studies from 2017 to 2020. A native of Chihuahua, Mexico, she pursued a Master’s and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book Los pícaros, bufones y cronistas de Maluco: La novela de los descubridores was published by Linardi y Risso in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2008. She has also published critical essays in refereed journals in Cuba, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her teaching fields are U.S. Latino Literature/Culture, Women’s Studies, and Latin American Literature/Culture. She is currently working on a project focusing on contemporary memoirs by Jewish Latin American Authors.

Madres e Hijas Melancólicas en Seis Novelas Étnicas de Crecimiento de Autoras Latinas

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