Contributors to this edited collection use a psychoanalytic lens to examine the historical and political silencing of women as portrayed through Latin American art and literature.

Contributors to this edited collection use a psychoanalytic lens to examine the historical and political silencing of women as portrayed through Latin American art and literature.

Chapter 1: The Silencing of Women and the Silent Feminine in Literature About War

Araceli Colín Cabrera

Translated By Natalia Rivas Colín

Chapter 2: Nellie Campobello: Writing, Testimony, and Pedagogies Against Silence

Cathia Huerta Arellano

Translated By Maricruz Ocampo Guerrero

Chapter 3: Feminine Jouissance in Elena Garro’s Writing: Rescuing Silent, Fertile Difference

Flor de María Gamboa Solís

Translated By Mariana Sandoval Gamboa

Chapter 4: Autoviudas: Prejudiced Justice for The Ladies of Death

Nubia Carolina Rovelo Escoto And Francisco Javier de Santiago Herrero

Translated By Maricruz Ocampo Guerrero

Chapter 5: Feminine Voices as An Exploration of The Unfathomable

Alejandra Cantoral Pozo And Alfredo Emilio Huerta Arellano

Translated By Helen Harper

Chapter 6: Destinies of Silence, Silence of Destiny: “The Good Daughter” By Almudena Grandes

Mario Orozco Guzmán And Hada Soria Escalante

Chapter 7: Creative Silence in the Works of Frida Kahlo

Delphine Scotto di Vettimo

Translated By Victoria Grace

Chapter 8: Las Tinieblas y El Agua Para Chocolate: Two Narratives About Feminine Care of Old People. Something of Which There is Nothing Left and That Returns to Interrogate Us

Eurídice Sosa Peinado

Translated By Helen Harper

Chapter 9: The Individual Rights Dimension Associated to Mental Health Care: An Essential Perspective in The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Severely Abused Individuals

Viviana Pereda Ruiz

Translated By Flavia Livacic Rojas

Chapter 10: From Women´s Silence to the Speaking Subject

Martha Patricia E. Aguilar Medina

Translated By Helen Harper