Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
9 - The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
from Part II - Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Poetry was part of the common sound space, ranging from grand odes to heroes to popular songs about bandits or gauchos. The recitation of a poem, often composed solely for the occasion, accompanied most public events, and later in the century learning to recite poetry well was considered part of a good education. Poems from the ancient Spanish romancero were alive and well then in Spanish America, as Portuguese traditional poetry was in Brazil. Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda is the brightest star in the nineteenth century's female poetic firmament and, until the appearance of Ruben Dario in the 1880s, is perhaps only rivaled in the lyric by her earlier compatriot, Jose Maria de Heredia. With the expansion of public education, especially the normalista movement in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and other countries, young people, both men and women, from modest beginnings entered the literary sphere.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 149 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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