Titlebook: Remembering Maternal Bodies; Melancholy in Latina Benigno Trigo Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006 Americ

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,From Revenge to Redemption: Julia Alvarez’s Open Secrets, writing is a form of melan-choly regression to an archaic negation that is both depressive and constitutive of subjectivity. Similar to Freudian melancholia, Alvarez’s poetic writing is determined by the loss of a loved object, which sometimes takes the form of an abstract ideal (like the nation or

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,Accidents of Chicana Feminisms: Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Cherríe Moraga,ecific form, particularly after the publication of . in 1981. In this chapter, I discuss how the maternal is represented in the texts of three of the most influential Chicana writers emerging from that book.. At stake in this discussion is the place of Chicana writing vis-à-vis both Feminist and postfeminist readings of the maternal.

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Book 2006ecome ourselves. This fantasy has a matricide at its core, and this matricide will continue to have its depressing effect on us as long as it remains in place and invisible. The authors showcased in this book make visible this fantasy and change it in their works in an effort to bring us out of our depression and melancholy.

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,Transformative Witnessing: Clarice Lispector’s Dark Ties,ector’s popular book of short stories ., and in her novel ... But if it is true that these works are about the collapse of witnessing, it is also true that Vitória’s angry desperation in the ., and the professor’s pleading tone in . suggest Lispector’s urgency to make witnessing possible again.

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,The Mother Tongue: Rosario Ferré’s Ec-centric Writing,e. She suggests that language is a contradictory boundary. On the one hand, it can be a distance between the writer and its subject and here she compares English to a brush that mediates between the painter and the canvas. But on the other hand, language can also be a porous space of passage. Langua