Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Prospero's Daughter 1
6. 2. Castellanos as Resisting Reader: Sobre cultura femenina 26
7. 3. Castellanos and Indigenismo in Mexico 45
8. 4. Baún Canán as Palimpsest 67
9. 5. Ciudad Real: The Pitfalls of Indigenista Consciousness 106
10. 6. Versions of History in Ojicio de tinieblas 131
11. 7. "Buceando cada vez mas hondo . . .": The Dangerous Memory of Women's Lives 172
12. 8. Public Writing, Public Reading: Rosario Castellanos as Essayist 207
13. Afterword 227
14. Notes 229
15. Bibliography 245
16. Index 257