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Item Passionate women, eternal volcanoes, loving fathers: landscapes, memory, and the power of language in the prose works of Angeles Mastretta(Texas Tech University, 2004-05) Rollins, Ellen GinnettIn this work I investigate the thematic content and aesthetic qualities in Angeles Mastretta's five major prose works: Puerto libre (1993). El mundo iluminado (1998), Mujeres de ojos grandes (1990). Mai de amores (1998). and Arrancame la vida (1985). I also discuss the author's novella, Ninguna etemidad como la mia (1999) and its similarity to Mai de amores and the author's other prose works. I examine Mastretta's presentation of a variety topics such as: 1) intelligent women who meet challenges with courage and humor, ultimately achieving happiness and self-sufficiency; 2) the power of the imagination, memory and forgetfulness as essential to writing and to coping with life's adversities; 3) tolerance for differing opinions; 4) genuine communication and the establishment of true bonds of friendship and solidarity, especially among women; and 5) the value of emotional release as necessary to dealing with life's struggles. This dissertation includes summaries of interviews, dissertations and critical analyses of Mastretta's prose works as well as summaries of the author's essays in Puerto libre and El mundo iluminado and her short stories in Mujeres de ojos grandes. My close analysis of selected works by Mastretta pays special attention to the stylistic devices such as the metaphor, recurring motifs, wordplay, repetition and reiteration, and rhetorical questioning that confribute to the richness of Mastretta's prose. In addition to these literary devices, I highlight the writer's use of local color, humor, irony, and nostalgia in her prose corpus. I also discuss feminist, postmodemist, nueva novela historica and literatura light tendencies in her writings.