Book Review: Camilla Sutherland. <i>The Space of Latin American Women Modernists</i> . Cardiff: University of Wales Press, Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2024, 205 Pages. ISBN 9781837721085 (Hardcover)
women's artistic careers involved overcoming spatial boundaries and that their thematic treatments of space contributed to a reframing of gendered spaces and identity" (p.xviii).She thus examines how cultural shifts provoked by modernitysuch as the rapid development of urban centers and the invention of new modes of transportationimpacted the coding of gendered spaces, and how Latin American women writers and artists responded to these new spatial configurations by constructing their identities as artists through distinctly spatial strategies.The book contains an introduction, four chapters, and an afterword.The twenty-nine visual images that accompany her analysis are helpful for orienting the reader to the spatial strategies under examination.The four
Authors
- Adrián Taylor Kane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1241-0296)
Institutions
- Boise State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Gender Studies
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2024-0012
- Primary Topic
- Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
- Type
- article
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- 0.00