Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs 1
6. Poetry: Silences and Otherness 5
7. Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos 10
8. Speakers and Addressees in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos 24
9. Fiction: Under a Man's Hand 31
10. Essays: Writing Her Self 39
11. The Eternal Feminine: Destroying the Myths 53
12. Notes 57
13. Works Cited 64
14. Rosario Castellanos: A Basic Bibliography of Her Writing 70
15. A Select Bibliography of Rosario Castellanos Criticism 71
16. Silence Near an Ancient Stone 81
17. To a Tiny Mayan Badger 82
18. The Other 83
19. Monologue of a Foreign Woman 84
20. Routine 87
21. Presence 88
22. Passage 89
23. Consciousness 90
24. Metamorphosis of the Sorceress 92
25. Chess 94
26. Brief Chronicle 95
27. Malinche 96
28. Memorandum on Tlatelolco 98
29. Self-Portrait 100
30. Speaking of Gabriel 102
31. Home Economics 103
32. Learning about Things 105
33. Postscript 108
34. You Are Not Poetry 109
35. Re: Mutilations 110
36. Meditation on the Brink 111
37. Kinsey Report 112
38. Looking at the Mona Lisa 116
39. Nobodying 117
40. Nazareth 118
41. The Eagle 121
42. Three Knots in the Net 129
43. Fleeting Friendships 144
44. The Widower Roman 155
45. Cooking Lesson 207
46. Incident at Yalentay 219
47. Once Again Sor Juana 222
48. An Attempt at Self-Criticism 226
49. Discrimination in the United States and in Chiapas 229
50. A Man of Destiny 232
51. Woman and Her Image 236
52. The Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman 245
53. Language as an Instrument of Domination 250
54. If Not Poetry, Then What? 254
55. Self-Sacrifice Is a Mad Virtue 259
56. The Liberation of Love 264
57. Herlinda Leaves 267
58. The Eternal Feminine 273
59. Notes 363
60. Notes on the Editor and the Translators 369
61. Index 371