Article: Remembering and Recovering Goblin Market in Rosario Ferre's "Pico Rico, Mandorico".(Critical Essay)

The nature of literary influence among women authors has long been a fruitful topic of discussion in feminist scholarship. Perhaps the most influential work on the subject remains Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic. Outwardly rejecting, but in many respects attempting to complement, the work of Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence and A Map of Misreading, Gilbert and Gubar contend that "`the anxiety of influence' that a male poet experiences is felt by a female poet as an even more primary `anxiety of authorship'--a radical fear that she cannot create, that because she can never become a `precursor' the act of writing will isolate or destroy ...

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