Nancy LaGreca

St. Mary's University, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty Member

University of Oklahoma, Modern Languages, Literatures, and LInguistics, Faculty Member

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My research uncovers how intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centuries sought to expand definitions of selfhood in the face of strong nationalist discourses of ideal citizenship. _Rewriting Womanhood: Early Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in The Latin American Novel, 1887-1903_ (Pennsylvania State UP 2009) is a historical and literary study of the ways that women novelists sought to redefine the feminine by writing intelligent, dynamic early feminist heroines. My second book, _Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernismo_ (University of North Carolina Press 2017) is a philosophical and psychoanalytic study of the subversive political power of non-theistic mysticism in the novels and essays of key modernista writers. My latest project is titled _Latin American Women Novelists of Modernismo: The Dawn of the New Woman (under contract with Vanderbilt University Press). I teach upper-division and graduate courses on Latin American literature and culture in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma.
Supervisors: Naomi Lindstrom, Benigno Trigo, and Katie Arens
Phone: 405-325-5346
Address: University of Oklahoma
Graduate College
731 Elm Ave, Robertson Hall, Rm. 213
Norman, OK 73019-2115

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Feminism and identity in three Spanish American novels, 1887-1903

Intertextual Sexual Politics: Illness and Desire in Enrique Gómez Carrillo's Del amor, del dolor y del vicio and Aurora Cáceres's La rosa muerta

Hispania, 2012

This study explores the intertextuality between Aurora Cáceres's La rosa muerta (1914) and th... more This study explores the intertextuality between Aurora Cáceres's La rosa muerta (1914) and the novel Del amor, del dolor y del vicio (1898) by her ex-husband, Enrique Gómez Carrillo. Cáceres strategically mentions Gómez Carrillo's novel in La rosa muerta to invite a reading of her work in dialogue with his. Both narratives follow the sexual awakening of an independently wealthy young widow, but exhibit important differences. Gómez Carrillo's sexually transgressive character closely follows the aesthetic and discursive norms of fin de siècle literature that pathologized female desire. His fictional women are a literary and aesthetic experiment in female decadentism, one that he ultimately puts aside by marrying the characters by the end of the novel. Cáceres's narrative revises Gómez Carrillo's representations of female sexuality and modernista representations of women more broadly. I analyze Cáceres's writing of the female body, illness, and desire to demonstrate the ways in which Cáceres simultaneously critiques misogynistic discourses of the turn of the century and presents positive and realistic images of women's sexuality for future generations of women. La rosa muerta is a modernista novel that anticipates the emboldened attitude toward female eroticism and the provocative writing style of women writers of the avant-garde and the boom.

Evil Women and Feminist Sentiment: Baroque Contradictions in María de Zayas's" El prevenido engañado" and" Estragos que causa el vicio

Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2004

... her in the street, injured from knife wounds. After leaving Florentina with a doctor, he retu... more

Rewriting womanhood: feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903

... Page 3. REWRITING WOMANHOOD Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin A... more

Rewriting Womanhood

Feminist Literary Criticism of Latin American Women's Writing: Context, Approaches, and Analysis of the 1990s and early 2000s

Revista De Estudios Hispanicos, 2006

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