MEXICO CITY (process.com.mx).- With the power of the story as an imaginative element, the book “Amas de Casa. Unredeemed Tales” by journalist Susana Cato, reflects stories of passion, courage and humor of women who decided at some point – in the author’s words – ‘to throw everything to the wind’ to find their own strength.
The volume edited by La Tuna Literaria of Chumbera Producciones, is now available in bookstores in Mexico City, and in recent days also via Mercado Libre, in an effort to reach readers from all over the world.
During the presentation of “Amas de casa. Cuentos irredentos”, at the last Book Fair of the Palacio de Minería, Susana Cato (CDMX), also the author of other volumes such as “Ellas. The Women of ’68”, “Isjir” (a novel based on the story of her Iraqi grandfather), “From the Movie”, a biography of the actress María Rojo, and “Dying of Love and Other Zombie Stories” as well as a cultural promoter, recalled the Why do you consider the story fascinating within literature:
“His power was demonstrated in the anthology of stories from the world ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ which begins with a sultan who discovers his wife being unfaithful, from there he decides to remarry and spend just one night with a woman and kill her.” so that he does not have time to be unfaithful, thus thousands of young people begin to die until Scherezada arrives, and asks to tell his sister a story at night, but he stays halfway, and thus a thousand and one nights pass, managing to break the sultan’s feminicidal desire.
“That book demonstrates the power of the story… in the case of ‘Amas de Casa. Unredeemed stories’ and ‘Dying of love and other zombie stories’ have a series of stories that I wrote throughout my life, one of them at the age of 17, in the case of the first they are stories of women, very dedicated housewives who decide one day to throw everything away; It also has a little bit of me, of my experience in what a ‘good and dedicated housewife’ I have been among all my jobs.”
In this regard, and on the occasion of the launch in Mercado Libre, Indira Cato, editor of the book and the Tuna Literaria, and who is also a film producer (“Llévate mis amores”, 2014 and “Amor ice”, 2023) and currently working on The post-production of the documentary “Olimpia” that he directs, recounted the opportuneness of a book like “Amas de Casa. Unredeemed stories” in times of social changes such as those experienced today:
“What I like about ‘Housewives’ is that it does justice to the stereotypical idea of what a submissive woman is, it talks about women who are part of a traditional family that manages to break standards using the tools or knowledge that has been given to them. being a housewife, all with different realities, but what they have in common is that they are tired of being locked up, of the marital yoke, and one day they simply decide that they can forge their destiny.
“In the end, they are stories that question certain dynamics, but they also have humor, they give you the possibility of imagining other stories, but above all the possibility of understanding that other realities are always, always possible.”
–Why read “Housewives. Unredeemed stories”, beyond genre?
“Socially we are used to asking why female characters in stories would interest others, but I think it is more of a social problem, because in the stories the characters have always been ‘men’, and it seems revolutionary to me that the heroines can be women and housewives, we are used to these great characters with great adventures, but women are also housewives and have great stories, this book is a way of recognizing women as a fundamental pillar without being such a serious talk, because it also has a lot of humor.”
“Housewives. Cuentos irredentos” will have an upcoming presentation in June in the City of Puebla, Puebla, the date of which has yet to be defined and will be announced on the Facebook account of Chumbera Producciones (
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2024-05-13 16:10:44