Mujerista Movement and Literature

“We don’t live in places where we can hear those stories anymore; parents don’t sit around and tell their children those classical, mythological, archetypal stories that we heard years ago. But new information has to get out, and there are several ways to do it. One is the novel”. (Foreman, 1992)  Memory is grounded in a recuperated relation to the historical.  Feminine history is usually trivialized, or forgotten, Allende has chosen the art of Novel writing to record this History. 

Refrences

Asisi-Diaz, Ada Maria; Mujeristas: A Name of Our Own!!; Christian Century, May 24-31, 1989 p. 560. http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=874

Article covering the definition of  Mujerista theory and it’s place in society in the US. For so many years Latina feminist did not have a name of their own and they found one in the Mujerista theology.

Buedel, Barbara Foley; Magical places in Isabel Allende’s Eva Luna and Cuentos De Eva Luna.(Critical essay) West Virginia University Philological Papers; 22-SEP-06 http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32847883_ITM

Article with an in depth look at Eva Luna and the Stories of Eva Luna and the power that the author brings to Eva Luna.

Freitas, Donna; Review of DelRosso, Jeana, Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary   International Catholic Girlhood Narratives. H-Catholic, H-Net Reviews. November, 2006. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=12491

Review of writing and Feminism and why women like Allende write the stories they do.  Why women need their stories told.

Foreman, P Gabrielle (1992). Past-on stories: History and the magically real, Morrison and Allende on call. Feminist Studies, 18(2), 369.  Retrieved January 8, 2009, from Research Library database. (Document ID: 1641806)

speaks directly on the subject of Women and History.  It is a comparison of Toni Morrison’s Songs of Solomon and Allende’s House of the Spirits.  It delineates how both authors have captured History using a magical reality to reclaim pasts that are often overlooked. 

Guthrie PhD, Sharon R (1995); Liberating the Amazon Feminism and Martial Arts; Women & Therapy: . . . a feminist quarterly; 16(2/3) 107 – 119.  Retrieved January 25, 2009 from  Hawthorn Press (DOI: 10.1300/J015v16n02_12)

Definition of Amazon feminism and character traits or this Literary phenomenon

Han, Jaehwan. (2007). Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, ed. Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society The Free Library. (2007). Retrieved January 25, 2009 from http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, ed. Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in…-a0179977493

Definition of Womanism.  A review of  an anthology of essay on the subject of womanism.

cultural feminism. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved January 26, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online:  http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/724692/cultural-feminism