Women in the Spanish Novel Today: Essays on the Reflection of Self in the Works of Three Generations

by Kyra A. Kietrys (Editor), Montserrat Linares (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786443543
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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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