One of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Examining the workks by Pia Barros, David Benavente and the Taller de Investigacion Teatral, Ariel Dorfman, Diamela Eltit, and Isabel Allende, this work engages emergent feminist crtiques of authoritarianism in terms of gender and class, history and language....