Biography EssayRosario Castellanos considered literature a means of understanding the world around her. Consequently her fiction sprang from a deep-felt need to respond to issues close to her own real...
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Rosario Castellanos considered literature a means of understanding the world around her. Consequently her fiction sprang from a deep-felt need to respond to issues close to her own reality: mainly the...
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Rosario Castellanos is one of the preeminent poets in twentieth-century Mexican literature and one of the most significant women writers of Latin America. She was a prolific writer who worked in all l...
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In the following essay, Rodriguez-Peralta explores Castellanos's intention in her fiction to demythify cultural and popular images of women.
The trajectory of Rosario Castellanos' pro...
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In the following essay, Hart explores what he considers the protagonist's ironic defiance of patriarchal law in “Lección de cocina.”
In her essay ‘Woman and Her I...
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In the following essay, Miller discusses Castellanos's use of plot, setting, characterization, and narrative techniques in Los convidados de agosto to demonstrate her thoughts on sociopolitical...
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In the following essay, Anderson discusses Castellanos's exploration of women and power.
In 1950 Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) presented a thesis on feminine culture which has come to be c...
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In the following essay, Parham explores Castellanos's focus on alienation and her evolving sense of optimism in the stories in her last work of fiction, Album de familia.
In Album de familia...
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In the following essay, Parham discusses alienation in Ciudad Real, arguing that Castellanos illustrates modes of social interaction common in Mexican culture that serve to both protect the individual...
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In the following essay, Scott argues that Castellanos uses humor to break down cultural myths about women.
Do feminists have a sense of humor? Perhaps one of the most appropriate people to ask woul...
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In the following essay, Furnival discusses the “bourgeois male ‘utopia’ that emerged from the Mexican Revolution,” explored by Castellanos in her short stories.
Rosario ...
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In the following essay, Duncan examines language used as an instrument of oppression by middle- and upper-class Spanish-speaking Mexicans against native Mexicans in Castellanos's “La tre...
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In the following essay, Geldrich-Leffman discusses the inherent dialogic nature of marriage reflected in Castellanos's short stories.
Prominent in Latin American letters and a leading voice ...
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In the following review, McMurray praises Castellanos's portrayal of women in Album de familia.
The latest work by Rosario Castellanos [Album de familia], Mexico's leading woman autho...
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In the following essay, Dorward compares the indigenista short stories of Castellanos, María Lombardo de Caso, and Emma Dolujanoff.
In this article it is proposed to examine the largely cont...
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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' fict...
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In the following essay, Schaefer examines the major thematic concerns of the stories in City of Kings.
A writer capable of plotting the most superbly ironic of situations for her characters and a w...
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In the following essay, Geldrich-Leffman offers a feminist perspective on Castellanos's short fiction.
Prominent in Latin American letters and a leading voice in early Mexican feminism, Rosa...
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Rosario Castellanos
Rosario Castellanos
Critical Essay by Phyllis Rodriguez-Peralta
