The end of the twentieth century witnessed a boom in the production publication readership
and scholarship of women's writing from Latin America. In fact the emergence of women writers
is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the post-boom period of Latin American literary
history a phenomenon that has been influenced in turn by the burgeoning development of a
number of women's movements on the continent. Within this boom the short story has become an
increasingly popular genre amongst women writers. This book considers the location(s) of four
major women writers - Cristina Peri Rossi Rosario Ferré Albalucía Angel and Isabel Allende -
and their short fiction within these changing literary and social contexts. Combining close
textual analysis of their fiction with a consideration of the social historical and
geographical contexts of literary production this book is essential reading for students and
scholars in Latin American studies women's studies and comparative literature.
