Antigone's daughters : gender, genealogy, and the politics of authorship in 20th-century Portuguese women's writing / Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos Alonso
Introduction -- Florbela Espanca and female genius: alone of all her sex -- Irene Lisboa: minding the gender gap -- The case of the missing body: allegories of authorship in Agustina Bessa Luís -- Matriarchal precedents: thus spoke Natalia Correia -- Giving up whose ghost in the works of Hélia Correia -- Sexual/textual re-visions in Lídia Jorge
Summary
I>Antigone''s Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu''s, (1923- ), Nat_lia Correia (1923-93), HZlia Correia (1949 - ) and L''dia Jorge (1946 - ). Together they cover the span of the 20th century and afford historical insights into the complex gender politics of achieving institutional acceptance and validation in the Portuguese national canon at different points in the 20th century
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