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Rosario Ferre The Youngest Doll (Paperback) Latin American Women Writers
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- Book Title
- Youngest Doll
- Publication Name
- The Youngest Doll
- Title
- The Youngest Doll
- Translator
- Rosario Ferre
- Contributor
- Rosario Ferre (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0803268742
- EAN
- 9780803268746
- ISBN
- 9780803268746
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Release Date
- 01/01/1991
- Release Year
- 1991
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Series
- Latin American Women Writers
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 188 Pages
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A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. "The Youngest Doll," based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferr 's feminist and social concerns. It is the premier story in a collection that was originally published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and is now translated into English by the author. The daughter of a former governor of Puerto Rico, Ferr portrays women loosening the constraints that have bound them to a patriarchal culture. Anger takes creative rather than polemical form in ten stories that started Ferr on her way to becoming a leading woman writer in Latin America. The upper-middle-class women in The Youngest Doll, mostly married to macho men, rebel against their doll-like existence or retreat into fantasy, those without money or the right skin color are even more oppressed. In terms of power and influence, these women stand in the same relation to men as Puerto Rico itself does to the United States, and Ferr stretches artistic boundaries in writing about their situation. The stories, moving from the realistic to the nightmarish, are deeply, felt, full of irony and black humor, often experimental in form. The imagery is striking: an architect dreams about a beautiful bridge that "would open and close its arches like alligators making love"; a Mercedes Benz "shines in the dark like a chromium rhinoceros." One story, "The Sleeping Beauty," is a collage of letters, announcements, and photo captions that allows chilling conclusions to be drawn from what is not written. The collection includes Ferr 's discussion of "When Women Love Men," a story about a prostitute and a society lady who unite in order to survive, and one that illustrates the woman writer's "art of dissembling anger through irony." In closing, she considers how her experience as a Latin American woman with ties to the United States has brought to her writing a dual cultural perspective. Rosario Ferr 's works include Sweet Diamond Dust and The House on the Lagoon.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803268742
ISBN-13
9780803268746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
737427
Product Key Features
Book Title
Youngest Doll
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
188 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq7440.F45p313 1991
Lccn
90-033548
Dewey Decimal
863
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Latin American Women Writers Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
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