Studies on My Work

Benigno Trigo’s “Remembering Maternal Bodies”

Link: Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women's Writing (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)

 

Melanie A. Pérez Ortiz’s “Irene Vilar: Critique of Self-Sacrifice…”

Link: "Irene Vilar: Critique of Self-Sacrifice in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party From the Forbidden Side of the Border" por Melanie A. Perez Ortiz, Departamento de Estudios Hispanicos, University of Puerto Rico

Laura Halperin’s “Rape’s Shadow: Seized Freedoms in Irene Vilar’s ‘The Ladies’ Gallery’”

Link: "Rape's Shadow: Seized Freedoms in Irene Vilar's 'The Ladies' Gallery'", University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)

Ph D Thesis of Carmen Ana Pont

"Le regard intime: du souvenir prive a la mémoire collective. L'écriture autobiographique portoricaine" Université de Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle U.F.R. D' Etudes Ibériques et Latino Américaines.

Ph D Thesis of Carmen Ana Pont has a whole chapter on the book. A great document.

Dr. Antonia Garcia-Rodriguez

Link: "Wrapped in the Puerto Rican Flag: Irene Vilar's The Ladies' Gallery and Three Generations of Puerto Rican Women." in A Perfect Blend: American Legacy in Color, Proceedings. 2006:1203-1211.

Essay by Dr. Dolores Alcaide Ramirez

Link: Essay by Dr. Dolores Alcaide Ramirez on The Ladies Gallery

 

Phd thesis, Purdue

Link: Phd thesis, Purdue, Dolores Alcaide Ramirez: Transnacionalismo, violencia y subjetividades diasporicas en la obra de artistas Latino-Caribeñas contemporaneas

Abstract: This study examines the work by six female artists (five writers and one performance artist) from the Caribbean and its diaspora in the U.S. The project analyzes the depiction of violence in their works and how this violence is linked to systems of oppression inscribed in the nation. These artists (Mayra Montero, Loida Maritza Pérez, Irene Vilar, Achy Obejas, Mayra Santos Febres and Ana Mendieta) perform “transnational feminist practices” (Grewal) by showing how these links work across national borders.

Dr. Cristina Mathews, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, current issue of Bilingual Review 2008

Link: "'A Nest from the Bones of the Dead': Challenging the Mourning and Melancholia Dichotomy in Irene Vilar's The Ladies' Gallery"

This article discusses the book using relational psychoanalytic theories and new literary critical approaches to loss.