Castellanos, Rosario (Vol. 67) | Maureen Ahern (essay date 1988)
Maureen Ahern (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Ahern, Maureen. “Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contacts, Voices, and Signs,” In A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama, edited by Maureen Ahern, pp. 31-8. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.
[In the following excerpt, Ahern discusses several factors that shaped Castellanos's development as a short fiction writer.]
FICTION: UNDER A MAN'S HAND
Rosario Castellanos' fiction centers on two areas of experience long overlooked in Mexican letters: the critique of racial and cultural oppression of indigenous peoples in Chiapas and the status of women in provincial and urban Mexico. The stories translated in this anthology [A Rosario Castellanos Reader], represent those major foci of her prose: a perversion of signs and values in “The Eagle” and women as signs of solitude and conflict under patriarchal rule in “Fleeting...
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