Editado en varias lenguas y libro de lectura obligada en cuatro universidades de Estados Unidos, la primera novela de esta nicaraguense nos introduce en dos relatos paralelos: la resistencia indigena a los espanoles y la actual insurgencia centroamericana ligados por una confluencia comun: la emancipacion de la mujer, la pasion y el compromiso.
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Published in 1988, La mujer habitada (The Inhabited Woman,1994) is Gioconda Belli's first novel. Taking as its backdrop a thinly veiled version of the author's native Nicaragua (which becomes Faguas) during the early-to-mid 1970s, the novel examines the links between gender, political opposition movements, and broad historical trends. While La mujer habitada has enjoyed abundant critical and popular attention, scholars have overlooked the rich interpretative possibilities provided by, arguably, the novel's central character: an indigenous woman who has morphed into a tree. A careful consideration of this highly complex character facilitates productive links with numerous discourses, including art and ecofeminism, as well as historical and literary writings on the history of the Americas, especially as concerns the best-known...
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