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Item Rebeldía femenina en la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea.(2012-08-08) Martinez, Araceli S.; García-Corales, Guillermo.; Spanish.; Baylor University. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages.The objective of this thesis is to examine the concept of rebellion in contemporary Latin American literature written by women. On the basis of the ideas of cultural critics Michel Foucault and Julia Kristeva, rebellion is understood in this study as a driving force for survival, cultural development, and resisting diverse aspects of the status quo. To this effect, we investigate diverse expressions of feminine rebellion in the short stories “La muñeca menor” by Rosario Ferré, “El ángel caído” by Cristina Peri Rossi and “Dos palabras” by Isabel Allende. We will demonstrate that rebellion is an essential element of the feminine Latin American narrative, examining three unifying characteristics in each of the analyzed texts: first, a prominence of female figures; second, a reference to narrated worlds with multiple conflicts that intermingle within psychological, cultural, political, and social spheres; and third, the possibility of a magical resolution of conflicts.