In Her Words Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes

by Persin, Margaret H.; Arsova, Jasmina; Bajus, Mark; Bellver, Catherine G.; Benson, Douglas K.; Cappuccio, Brenda; Castro, Elena; Evans-Corrales, Carys; Fajardo, Salvador J.; Makris, Mary; Miller, Martha LaFollette; Ugalde, Sharon Keefe; Vila-Belda, Reyes;

• ISBN13: 9781611480146
• ISBN10: 1611480140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-29
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Summary

During her lifetime Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry, approaches the works of Gloria Fuertes from various theoretical and critical perspectives. In Her Words speaks to the inherent complexity of Gloria Fuertes's poetry, as manifested in its ultimate indeterminacy and undecidability, yet attest to this poet's abiding value as the voice of the marginalized-women, the poor, children, all the invisible members of society- who were silenced during the years of Spanish dictatorship under Franco.

Author Biography

Margaret H. Persin is professor of Hispanic literature and culture at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Prologue	p. 11
Identity
Portraits of the Poet in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes	p. 21
Gloria et al.	p. 40
Gloria Fuertes: Self-Portraits of a Fertile Spinster	p. 52
Lesbian Identity: (Dis)appearing Act in Gloria Fuertes's Poetry	p. 82
Gerontological Poetics in Gloria Fuertes's Posthumous Es dificil ser feliz una tarde	p. 100
Discourse
Hearing Voices: Transtextuality and Heteroglossia in Gloria Fuertes's Mujer de verso en pecho	p. 121
Community and the Privileging of Sound in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes	p. 138
Poetic Forms and Ideology in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes	p. 166
Gloria Fuertes's Counterhegemonic Dialogism: A Response to El Nacionalcatolicismo	p. 185
Gloria Fuertes's Vietnam War Poems: Revising the Elegiac Tradition	p. 207
Transcending Boundaries: Gloria Fuertes's Poetry for Children and/or Adults	p. 221
Toward an Ecofeminist Dialogics in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes	p. 242
Reflections on Gloria Fuertes: Ethics and Community	p. 271
Gloria Fuertes: Select Bibliography	p. 290
Works Cited	p. 299
Notes on Contributors	p. 314
Index	p. 318
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