| | 'A Woman Schooled in Latin': Rosario Castellanos, Ambassador of Mexico and Chiapas |
 | | Life in Chiapas as Rosario narrates it, with tenderness and compassion and without lapsing into exotic stereotypes, is harsh, marked by the ever-more explosive antagonism between whites and Indians, and also by the sufferings of another subaltern group, namely women, whatever their ethnicity. |
 | | The peninsular reader may share a common language with Rosario Castellanos in general terms, but still stands in need of guidance if the goal is a full and accurate understanding of both the many particularities of the Spanish of Mexico and the cultural circumstances that frame them. |
 | | In this context and in the light of Rosario's own feminist essays, she locates the Mexican writer as a member of a greater 'colectivo de mujeres libres' ('collective of free women' - 39), committed to 'la construcción de una cultura femenina posible' ('the construction of a possible female culture' - 36). |
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