Changing women, changing nation [electronic resource] : female agency, nationhood, and identity in trans-Salvadoran narratives / Yajaira M. Padilla.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Campesina as nation : feminine resistance and power in Manlio Argueta's Un día en la vida and Cuzcatlán : donde bate la mar del sur -- Making militants and mothers : rethinking the image of the guerillera in women's revolutionary testimonios -- Setting la diabla free : women, violence, and the struggle for representation in postwar El Salvador -- Hermanas lejanas : female immigrant subjectivities and the politics of voice in the Salvadoran transnational community -- Salvadoran-American sleuthing in the US south and beyond : Marcos McPeek Villatoro's Romilia Chacón mystery series.

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