Visions and Revisions: Women’s Narrative in Twentieth-Century Spain

by Kathleen M. Glenn (Editor), Kathleen McNerney (Contributor)

The desire to see afresh, to see differently, both old and not-so-old texts underlies Visions and Women's Narrative in Twentieth-Century Spain . 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 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 Josefina Aldecoa, Carmen de Burgos, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Dulce Chacón, Lucía Etxebarria, Ana María Moix, Carme Riera, Montserrat Roig, and Mercedes Salisachs. The contributors are distinguished Hispanists based in the United States, Spain, Canada, England, and New Christine Arkinstall, Silvia Bermúdez, Maryellen Bieder, José F. Colmeiro, M. Àngels Francés, David K. Herzberger, P. Louise Johnson, Shirley Mangini, Esther Raventós-Pons, and Lisa Vollendorf. Their essays, which employ a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, will be of special interest to students of twentieth-century Peninsular literature, comparative literature, women's studies, and feminist criticism.

214 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2008