Mirrors and Echoes

by Bergmann, Emilie L.

• ISBN13: 9780520252677
• ISBN10: 0520252675
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-02
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women's gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space in the literary canon. This multilingual collection of essays by both scholars and creative artists explores the diversity of Spanish women's writing, both celebrated and forgotten. Contributors: Nicole Altamirano, Marta E. Altisent, Emilie L. Bergmann, Alda Blanco, Sara Brenneis, Kathleen M. Glenn, P. Louise Johnson, Jo Labanyi, Geraldine Cleary Nichols, Pilar Nieva de la Paz, Soledad Pueacute;rtolas, Clara Saacute;nchez

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Spain	p. 1
Mirrors and Spaces of Narration: Women Writers on Their Work
Mujer del espejo	p. 17
Como escribi Un millon de luces	p. 22
Performing Modernity: Gender and the Body Between the Wars
Women Writing on Physical Culture in Pre-Civil War Catalonia	p. 29
Out of the Glass Niche and into the Swimming Pool: The Transformation of the Sirena Figure in the Poetry of Concha Mendez	p. 46
Cultural Archives of Popular Fiction, Theater, and Film
Romancing the Early Franco Regime: The novelas romanticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-Maria Linares	p. 63
Desde la pared de vidrio hasta la otra orilla: El exilio de Maria Martinez Sierra	p. 79
Family, Gender, and Nation
Reproduccion, familia y futuro: Cuatro denuncias en clave femenina	p. 95
Mothers and Daughters in Transition and Beyond	p. 108
Writing and Historical Memory in the Transicion
Las narradoras y su insercion en la sociedad literaria de la transicion politica espanola (1975-1982)	p. 121
La batalla de la educacion: Historical Memory in Josefina Aldecoa's Trilogy	p. 136
Echoes and Silences
El pais del alma en las geografias literarias de Nuria Amat	p. 151
The Discourse of Silence in Alcanfor and "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora"	p. 164
Contributors	p. 173
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