Castellanos, Rosario (Vol. 39) | Chloe Furnival (essay date 1990)
Chloe Furnival (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: “Confronting Myths of Oppression: The Short Stories of Rosario Castellanos's ‘Chloe Furnival,’” in Knives and Angels: Women Writers in Latin America, edited by Susan Bassnett, Zed Books Ltd., 1990, pp. 52-67.
[In the following essay, Furnival discusses the “bourgeois male ‘utopia’ that emerged from the Mexican Revolution,” explored by Castellanos in her short stories.]
Rosario Castellanos (1925-74) was born into a white, wealthy landowning family in Mexico City and grew up on the family's estate in the southern, predominantly Indian-populated state of Chiapas. In 1941, President Cárdenas's land reforms1 finally reached this traditionally closed-off state, dramatically scaling down the Castellanos family's land-ownership there and causing the family's migration to Mexico City. Rosario Castellanos studied philosophy at the national university in Mexico City, presenting...
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