The Novels Of Josefina Aldecoa

Author : Nuala Kenny
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662445

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The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa by Nuala Kenny Pdf

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.

Author : Laura Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527591639

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Transformations of Trauma in Women's Writing by Laura Alexander Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which trauma alters women’s identities. While some of the chapters look deeply at individual experiences, many of the contributions look to national traumas and the consequences of political abuses, including colonial subjugation and genocide for women. The book shows that language has a transformative power to change us, to give us a great capacity for inner and outer dialogues and for healing and self-love. As shown here, women have historically employed autobiography and memoir to free themselves and others; rather than seeing the limit of form, they reinvent the parameters to offer a new relationship with language.

Author : Kyra A. Kietrys,Montserrat Linares
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786453191

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Women in the Spanish Novel Today by Kyra A. Kietrys,Montserrat Linares Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Leggott
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611486674

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Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women by Sarah Leggott Pdf

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.

Author : Kathleen Mary Glenn,Kathleen MacNerney
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042024113

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Visions and Revisions by Kathleen Mary Glenn,Kathleen MacNerney Pdf

The authors studied, born between 1867 and l966, evince an interest in one or more of the issues that structure and give unity to this book: the construction of the self, concepts of gender and nation, center and margin, and efforts to recover and/or reconstruct the past, both individual and collective. In addition to focusing on questions that are currently of great critical interest, the volume features both Castilian and Catalan authors.

Author : Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137379948

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Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes Pdf

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.

Author : Manuel Bragança,Peter Tame
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782381549

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The Long Aftermath by Manuel Bragança,Peter Tame Pdf

In its totality, the “Long Second World War”—extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945—has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nations—Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia—it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.

Author : Sebastiaan Faber
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826504050

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Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War by Sebastiaan Faber Pdf

The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped our views of the 1936-39 war and its long, painful aftermath. Faber traces the curious trajectories of iconic Spanish Civil War photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour; critically reads a dozen recent Spanish novels and essays; interrogates basic scholarly assumptions about history, memory, and literature; and interviews nine scholars, activists, and documentarians who in the past decade and a half have helped redefine Spain's relationship to its past. In this book Faber argues that recent political developments in Spain--from the grassroots call for the recovery of historical memory to the indignados movement and the foundation of Podemos--provide an opportunity for scholars in the humanities to engage in a more activist, public, and democratic practice.

Author : Emilie L. Bergmann,Richard Herr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520252677

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Mirrors and Echoes by Emilie L. Bergmann,Richard Herr Pdf

“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

Author : Silvia Caporale-Bizzini
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3039107895

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Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence by Silvia Caporale-Bizzini Pdf

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.

Author : David T. Gies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521574293

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David T. Gies Pdf

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.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : European literature
ISBN : 0824085477

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An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers by Katharina M. Wilson Pdf

Author : Maryellen Bieder,Roberta Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134777167

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Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War by Maryellen Bieder,Roberta Johnson Pdf

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.

Author : Gabrielle Carty,Patricia O’Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443822398

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Transcultural Encounters amongst Women by Gabrielle Carty,Patricia O’Byrne Pdf

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.

Author : Katie J. Vater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684482214

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Between Market and Myth by Katie J. Vater Pdf

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.