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The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa

Author : Nuala Kenny
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 1855662442
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa written by Nuala Kenny and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive analysis of the novels of prominent contemporary Spanish writer and educator Josefina Aldecoa. Josefina Aldecoa, in her treatment of themes such as a woman's place in society under and after dictatorship, mother-daughter relationships, war, and memory, confirmed her unique role as a contemporary novelist concerned with women's identity in Spain and as a writer of the mid-century generation ('los niños de la guerra'). The first volume of her trilogy, Historia de una maestra, was one of the earliest narratives of historical memory to beproduced in Spain. In this sense, Aldecoa's work anticipated new developments in gender studies, such as the intersection of feminist concerns and cultural memory. This book offers a comprehensive examination of Aldecoa's trajectory as a novelist, from La enredadera to Hermanas, centring on her primary preoccupations of gender and memory, arguing that Aldecoa's fiction offers a new, more complex understanding of women's identity than previously understood. The work combines the two dominating theoretical components of feminism and cultural memory with close textual analysis of Aldecoa's narratives. Her novels highlight the importance of the details of women's daily experiences and struggles throughout the twentieth century, a period of significant socio-political upheaval and change in Spain's history. NUALA KENNY teaches Spanish at the National University of Maynooth, Ireland.

Gender and Memory in the Novels of Josefina Aldecoa

Author : Nuala Kenny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Memory in the Novels of Josefina Aldecoa written by Nuala Kenny and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remembering Their Parents' Wars

Author : Catharine B. Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Their Parents' Wars written by Catharine B. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mirrors and Echoes

Author : Emilie L. Bergmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520252675
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Mirrors and Echoes written by Emilie L. Bergmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With contributions by well-known and respected critics, writing of a very high caliber, and essays that explore hitherto uncharted territory, Mirrors and Echoes is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Spanish women's writing.”—Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women

Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence

Author : Silvia Caporale-Bizzini
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039107896
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence written by Silvia Caporale-Bizzini and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist theory on motherhood has successfully transformed mothers into subjects of their own discourse, recognized the historical, heterogeneous and socially constructed origins of their life experience while, at the same time, widening our understanding of the notion of mothering. This collection combines a literary and a wider cultural perspective from which to look at the topic of the representation of other or forgotten motherhoods. Mothers who have been forced to live exiled and away from their children, women who after trying to conceive, get pregnant but discover they cannot bear to become mothers, or even literary characters based on an autobiographical experience of a sexually abusive mother. The essays critically point out how writing becomes a tool to think and write about the many aspects of motherhood such as an idealized maternal experience versus the real one or the accepted stereotypes of the good mother and the bad mother.

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women

Author : Sarah Leggott
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 161148667X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women by : Sarah Leggott

Download or read book Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women written by Sarah Leggott and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual and collective past. It discusses the different narrative models and strategies used in these works and the ways in which they engage with their political and historical context, particularly in the light of campaigns for the so-called recovery of historical memory in Spain (the “memory boom”) and in the broader context of memory and trauma studies. The novels that are examined in this book are Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida (2002), Rosa Regàs’s Luna lunera (1999), Josefina Aldecoa’s La fuerza del destino (1997), Carme Riera’s La mitad del alma (2005), and Almudena Grandes’s El corazón helado (2007). These works all highlight the multiple nature of memories and histories and demonstrate the complex ways in which the past impacts on the present. This book also considers the extent to which the memories represented in these five novels are inflected by gender and informed by the gender politics of twentieth-century and contemporary Spain.

Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain

Author : Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137379944
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain written by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture

Author : David T. Gies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574297
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by : David T. Gies

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture written by David T. Gies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.

Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

Author : Maryellen Bieder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134777167
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War written by Maryellen Bieder and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international phenomenon that inspired a number of literary works reflecting the impact of the war on foreign and national writers. While the literature of the period has been the subject of scholarship, women's literary production has not been studied as a body of work in the same way that literature by men has been, and its unique features have not been examined. Addressing this lacuna in literary studies, this volume provides fresh perspectives on well-known women writers, as well as less studied ones, whose works take the Spanish Civil War as a theme. The authors represented in this collection reflect a wide range of political positions. Writers such as Maria Zambrano, Mercè Rodoreda, and Josefina Aldecoa were clearly aligned with the Republic, whereas others, including Mercedes Salisachs and Liberata Masoliver, sympathized with the Nationalists. Most, however, are situated in a more ambiguous political space, although the ethics and character portraits that emerge in their works might suggest Republican sympathies. Taken together, the essays are an important contribution to scholarship on literature inspired by this pivotal point in Spanish history.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture

Author : Professor Eamonn Rodgers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134788584
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture written by Professor Eamonn Rodgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 750 alphabetically-arranged entries provide insights into recent cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes following the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Entries range from shorter, factual articles to longer overview essays offering in-depth treatment of major issues. Culture is defined in its broadest sense. Entries include: *Antonio Gaudí * science * Antonio Banderas * golf * dance * education * politics * racism * urbanization This Encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone interested in Spanish culture. It provides essential cultural context for students of Spanish, European History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.

Transcultural Encounters amongst Women

Author : Gabrielle Carty
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443822396
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Transcultural Encounters amongst Women written by Gabrielle Carty and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally women have found recourse in artistic means to interrogate change and upheaval. This volume explores the experiences of women from Spain, Portugal and Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who themselves have crossed cultural boundaries or have described this experience in their literature and film. Areas investigated in this collection of essays include the experience of the exiled or the immigrant and their personal or collective response to displacement and adaptation: the transcultural potential of cyberspace for women, how patterns and styles of the fashion industry have crossed borders, how women have crossed canonical cultural boundaries in search of identity and meaning, how global cultural influences have manifested in Hispanic and Lusophone cultural practices and production by or about women, and the challenging question of whether canine writing can be considered a branch of feminist theory. Common to most of the essays are the central issues of identity, values, conflict and interconnectedness and an analysis of the patterns that result from the transcultural encounter of these aspects.

Between Market and Myth

Author : Katie J. Vater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482216
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Between Market and Myth written by Katie J. Vater and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Market and Myth is a study of novels about artists and the art world written in Spain in the years following the Transition to democracy after Francisco Franco's death. The novels studied portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists' willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence.

An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824085476
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life-writing in Carmen Martín Gaite's Cuadernos de Todo and Her Novels of the 1990s

Author : Maria-José Blanco
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 1855662477
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Life-writing in Carmen Martín Gaite's Cuadernos de Todo and Her Novels of the 1990s written by Maria-José Blanco and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blanco examines the relationship between life-writing in Martín Gaite's notebooks and her fictional work. Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) was one of the most important Spanish writers of the second half of the twentieth century. From the 1940s, until her death in 2000, she published short stories, novels, poetry, drama, children literature and cultural and historical studies. This book studies life writing in Martín Gaite's notebooks Cuadernos de todo (2002) and her novels of the 1990s, Nubosidad variable (1992), La Reina de las nieves (1994), Lo raro es vivir (1996) and Irse de casa (1998). It looks at the use of first person narration in Martín Gaite's work, drawing a parallel between the notebooks and her fictional work. It further analyses the waythe author's notebooks relate to the development of her later novels as well as the use of writing as therapy. This work offers a way of looking at Carmen Martín Gaite's work from a personal and intimate perspective. Maria-José Blanco López de Lerma is Spanish Lecturer and Language Tutor at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin-American Studies, King's College London.

World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes]

Author : Maureen Ihrie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313080836
Total Pages : 1509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes] by : Maureen Ihrie

Download or read book World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes] written by Maureen Ihrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. Providing a thorough introduction to Spanish-language literature worldwide and across time is a tall order. However, World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. This encyclopedia describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe. All countries that produce literature in Spanish in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia are represented, covering both canonical authors and emerging contemporary writers and trends. Underrepresented writings—such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism—also appear. While writings throughout the centuries are covered, those of the 20th and 21st centuries receive special consideration.

A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel

Author : Martha Eulalia Altisent
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1855661748
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel written by Martha Eulalia Altisent and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish novel in a turbulent century.

Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels

Author : Sandra J. Schumm
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 161148359X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels written by Sandra J. Schumm and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the goddess Athena, who sprang fully-grown from Zeus's head and denied she had a mother, became aware of the compelling existence of her other parent? What if she discovered that her mother, Metis,—first wife of Zeus and 'wiser than all gods and mortal men,' according to Hesiod—was swallowed by her father and continued to impart her wisdom to him from inside his belly? Recent Spanish novels by women parallel this hypothetical situation based on Greek myth by featuring female protagonists who obsessively re-examine the lives of their mothers, seeking to know and understand them. In Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels, Schumm examines six narratives by Spanish authors published since 2000 that focus on a daughter's search to know more about her matriarchal heritage: Carme Riera's La mitad del alma, Luc'a Etxebarria's Un milagro en equilibrio, Rosa Montero's El coraz-n del tOrtaro, Cristina Cerezales's De oca a oca, Mar'a de la Pau Janer's Las mujeres que hay en m', and Soledad Puertolas's Historia de un abrigo. In each of these novels, the protagonist realizes that failure to integrate the loss of her mother into her life results in the inability to define herself. Without valorization of the maternal subject, the legacy of the daughter is at risk—she is also objectified and swallowed— and the whole society suffers. The daughters' attention to their mothers in these novels is as if Athena had finally recognized that her mother, Metis, had been ingested by Zeus. The myth of Metis and Athena becomes a metaphor of the daughter's quest toward wholeness and individuation in these works; she begins to understand that her maternal legacy is a source of wisdom that has been obscured. These novels by Spanish women strengthen the mother's voice, rescue her from anonymity, and rewrite the matriarchal archetype.