Twitterature in Spanish: the representation of womanhood in La Mujer de M by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

Authors

  • Perla Sassón-Henry United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland , United States of America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2019v15n1p66

Abstract

Mauricio Figueiras Montiel’s project La mujer de M comprises a print book, an e- book and a nouvelle on Twitter. The project which originally started as part of El hombre de Tweed, Montiel’s first twitterature work evolved to represent the influence social media platforms have at the creation and distribution level of a literary work as well as the role it has in the dissemination of the author’s intention for his work. This essay explores how Mexican author Mauricio Montiel Figueiras uses different publishing modalities to present the concept of womanhood as represented by the protagonist of his project La mujer de M.

Author Biography

Perla Sassón-Henry, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland , United States of America

Perla Sassón-Henry is Associate Professor at the United States Naval Academy, where she teaches Spanish language, literature and culture. She holds a doctorate in Humanistic Studies from the State University of New York at Albany. Her research interests include the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Latin American digital literature from the perspective of comparative studies, science, electronic literature, video games and net-art. She is the author of Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds. 

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Published

2019-08-21

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019)

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