El eterno femenino: farsa

Rosario Castellanos

Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1975 - Fiction - 204 pages

"A Rosario Castellanos Ie intereso siempre el teatro como medio de expresion, como manera de lIegar a un publico mas amplio y diverso y de poder comunicarse con el. Sin embargo, no se dedico al genero hasta muy tarde y nunca lIego a publicar esta obra que termino de escribir pocos meses antes de su muerte. EI tema de la mujer, de su situacion en el mundo, fue una de sus preocupaciones constantes. Asi, no es de extranar que El eterno femenino tenga un caracter abiertamente feminista, sin perder por eso la ternura y el buen humor que caracterizan toda la produccion que nos ha dejado Rosario Castellanos en la Iirica y en la prosa."--Back cover.

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 12
• Section 3: 13

About the author

Rosaroio Castellanos always enjoyed a comfortable middle-class existence; yet she early emerged in her writing as an eloquent spokesperson for the feminist movements that began to gain currency in the 1950s. But Castellanos moved beyond feminist concerns of her own class to speak for marginal or subaltern Mexican women, most significantly for the indigenous women whom the culture had mythified, stereotyped, or simply overlooked. Castellanos was especially successful in thematizing the multileveled, conflictual relationships between indigenous and middle-class women. The Nine Guardians (1957) is autobiographical in nature, drawing on childhood memories of Castellanos's contacts in southeast Mexico, near the Guatemalan border, with indigenous society. Other novels deal in complex and innovative ways with the roles of indigenous culture and of women in contemporary Mexican society. Castellanos published numerous volumes of poetry, and her drama The Eternal Feminine included a Rosario Castellanos Reader (1975), is considered one of the most innovative and influential feminist texts in Latin American literature. Castellanos, who also produced a steady output of perceptive essays, was Mexico's ambassador to Israel While she was ambassador, Castellanos died in Israel having been accidentally electrocuted.

Bibliographic information

• Title: El eterno femenino: farsa; Colección popular; Volume 144 of Colección popular: Fondo de Cultura Económica; Volume 115 of Letras mexicanas
• Author: Rosario Castellanos
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1975
• ISBN: 9681609654, 9789681609658
• Length: 204 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Foreign Language Study / Spanish; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Poetry / General