Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story (''Bildungsroman'') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the ar...