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Title Visions and revisions : women's narrative in twentieth-century Spain / edited by Kathleen M. Glenn and Kathleen McNerney
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations
Series Foro hispánico, 0925-8620 ; 31
Foro hispánico ; 31. 0925-8620
Contents Visions and Revisions; Contents; Introduction; Part I Self and Other(s); The Female as Battleground: Carmen de Burgos's Quiero vivir mi vida; Maria Aurèlia Capmany's Ethics From the Dust; Gender, Language, and Nation: Female and Androgynous Selves in Montserrat Roig's Last Novels; Beyond the Cartesian Subject: Personal and Collective Identity in Ana María Moix's 24 horas con la Gauche Divine; "Here's Looking at You, Kid": Giving Birth and Authoring, or the Author as Mother and the Mother as Author; Part II History and Memory
Remembering Spain: Historical Commitment in Mercedes Salisachs's Post-Franco PublicationsA Life Worth Living: Narrating Self and Identity in Josefina Aldecoa's Trilogy; Owning Up to History: Ethics and Aesthetics in Carme Riera's Dins el darrer blau; Carme Riera and the Paradox of Recovering Historical Memory in La meitat de l'ànima; Re-Collecting Women's Voices From Prison: The Hybridization of Memories in Dulce Chacón's La voz dormida; Contributors
Summary The desire to see afresh, to see differently, both old and not-so-old texts underlies Visions and Revisions: Women's Narrative in Twentieth-Century Spain. The authors studied, born between 1867 and l966, evince an interest in one or more of the issues that structure and give unity to this book: the construction of the self, concepts of gender and nation, center and margin, and efforts to recover and/or reconstruct the past, both individual and collective. In addition to focusing on questions that are currently of great critical interest, the volume features both Castilian and Catalan authors: Josefina Aldecoa, Carmen de Burgos, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Dulce Chacón, Lucía Etxebarria, Ana María Moix, Carme Riera, Montserrat Roig, and Mercedes Salisachs. The contributors are distinguished Hispanists based in the United States, Spain, Canada, England, and New Zealand: Christine Arkinstall, Silvia Bermúdez, Maryellen Bieder, José F. Colmeiro, M. Àngels Francés, David K. Herzberger, P. Louise Johnson, Shirley Mangini, Esther Raventós-Pons, and Lisa Vollendorf. Their essays, which employ a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, will be of special interest to students of twentieth-century Peninsular literature, comparative literature, women's studies, and feminist criticism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Spanish literature -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Spanish literature -- Women authors
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Glenn, Kathleen Mary.
MacNerney, Kathleen
ISBN 9781435665712
1435665716
9042024119
9789401205955
9401205957
9789042024113
Other Titles Women's narrative in twentieth-century Spain