Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature vs Gender and the self in Latin American literature: Which Should You Read?

Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature Heike Hartung · 2015 252 pages · ≈ 4 h 40 m · Challenging

This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific…

Gender and the self in Latin American literature Emma Staniland · 2015 251 pages · ≈ 4 h 39 m · Challenging

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…