This collection of new essays examines the representation of the female self in recent novels written by Spanish women. The essays explore the myriad ways in which women's struggle with self-definition and self-fulfillment is contemplated in Spain during a time in which democracy has taken hold and women's rights have taken shape. Authors covered include Carmen Martin Gaite, Josefina Aldecoa, Rosa Montero, Dulce Chacon, Clara Sanchez, Lucia Etxebarria, Care Santos, Eugenia Rico, Espido Freire, and others.
This collection of new essays examines the representation of the female self in recent novels written by Spanish women. The essays explore the myriad ways in which women's struggle with self-definition and self-fulfillment is contemplated in Spain during a time in which democracy has taken hold and women's rights have taken shape. Authors covered include Carmen Martin Gaite, Josefina Aldecoa, Rosa Montero, Dulce Chacon, Clara Sanchez, Lucia Etxebarria, Care Santos, Eugenia Rico, Espido Freire, and others.
Kyra A. Kietrys is an assistant professor of Spanish at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Montserrat Linares is an associate professor of Spanish at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
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Table of Contents Introduction: Reflecting the Self Kyra A. Kietrys and Montserrat Linares PART I. POSTWAR WRITERS Carmen Martín Gaite's Irse de casa or the Metafictional Creation of the Self Vilma Navarro-Daniels Space and the Construction of the Self in the Narratives of Josefina Aldecoa Carmen T. Sotomayor PART II. GENERATION OF THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY Historia de un abrigo: Women's Search for an Anchor in the Modern World Joanne Lucena Naturalism and the Self in Rosa Montero's La hija del caníbal Ellen Mayock Women, War, and Words in La voz dormida by Dulce Chacón Kathryn Everly The Wounded Self and Body in Dulce Chacón's Algún amor que no mate: A Haunting Discourse Esther Raventós-Pons Female Characters in the Novels of Clara Sánchez: Reflection and Mirage Mary Ann Dellinger PART III. NEW WRITERS OF THE 1990S Looking for the Other: Peninsular Women's Fiction after Levinas Nina L. Molinaro Revaluing the Mother in Lucía Etxebarria's Un milagro en equilibrio Sandra J. Schumm Negotiating Girlhood: Mediating Bodies and Identities in Novels by Care Santos Parissa Tadrissi The Elusive Self in Eugenia Rico's La muerte blanca Kyra A. Kietrys Fragmented Identities: The Narrative World of Espido Freire Montserrat Linares About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction: Reflecting the Self Kyra A. Kietrys and Montserrat Linares PART I. POSTWAR WRITERS Carmen Martín Gaite's Irse de casa or the Metafictional Creation of the Self Vilma Navarro-Daniels Space and the Construction of the Self in the Narratives of Josefina Aldecoa Carmen T. Sotomayor PART II. GENERATION OF THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY Historia de un abrigo: Women's Search for an Anchor in the Modern World Joanne Lucena Naturalism and the Self in Rosa Montero's La hija del caníbal Ellen Mayock Women, War, and Words in La voz dormida by Dulce Chacón Kathryn Everly The Wounded Self and Body in Dulce Chacón's Algún amor que no mate: A Haunting Discourse Esther Raventós-Pons Female Characters in the Novels of Clara Sánchez: Reflection and Mirage Mary Ann Dellinger PART III. NEW WRITERS OF THE 1990S Looking for the Other: Peninsular Women's Fiction after Levinas Nina L. Molinaro Revaluing the Mother in Lucía Etxebarria's Un milagro en equilibrio Sandra J. Schumm Negotiating Girlhood: Mediating Bodies and Identities in Novels by Care Santos Parissa Tadrissi The Elusive Self in Eugenia Rico's La muerte blanca Kyra A. Kietrys Fragmented Identities: The Narrative World of Espido Freire Montserrat Linares About the Contributors Index
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