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Indiscreet Fantasies
Offering in-depth analyses of fifteen different queer films from the Iberian Peninsula, this collection shows how a diverse group of filmmakers from regions including Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country have produced films that challenge the region's conservative religious values and gender norms, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation.
Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing
This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies, tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society with modernity and their girls’ cultures of origin with backwardness and oppression, these texts co...
Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán
"Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was the most prolific and influential woman writer of late nineteenth-century Spain," write the editors of this volume in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Contending with the critical literary, cultural, and social issues of the period, Pardo Bazán's novels, novellas, short stories, essays, plays, travel writing, and cookbooks offer instructors countless opportunities to engage with a variety of critical frameworks. The wide range of topics in the author's works, from fashion to science and technology to gender equality, and the brilliance of her literary style make Pardo Bazán a compelling figure in the classroom. Part 1, "Material...
The Bride in the Cultural Imagination
This essay collection examines the cultural and personal world of girls and women at a time when their lives, their person, their realities, and their status are about to change forever. Together, the chapters cleverly create an in-depth study of the subject, and look at several cultural forms to offer a different approach to the popularly-held views of the bride. The critical essays in this edited collection are thematically driven and include global perspectives of the portrayals of the bride in the films, stage productions and pop-culture narratives from Nigeria; Kenya; Uganda; Tanzania; Spain; Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; Tajikistan; India; Egypt; and the South-Eastern Indian Ocean Islands. This multinational approach provides insight into the intricacies, customs, practices, and life-styles surrounding the bride in various Eastern and Western cultures.
Literature of Crisis
The book explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in 2008. Spain has been experiencing the crisis in a particularly painful way, and the artistic response to these traumatic events has been powerful and abundant. The literature of the crisis is pointing to the probability that the crisis is not a temporary problem that will be resolved once and for all if correct economic measures are taken. To the contrary, there is every reason to believe that the losses in long-term employment, the growing precariousness of work, the increased economic insecurity, the citizens' disillusionment with the capacity of democratic gover...
Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women
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 ...
O Livro do Tempo: Escritas e reescritas
Estes dois volumes reúnem um conjunto de estudos sobre teatro grego e latino (I) e sua recepção (II). Da Antiguidade são considerados, além da análise de diversos textos concretos, aspectos relacionados com a evolução dos géneros trágico e cómico, com os seus agentes e com a função cívica que deles se espera. Os estudos de recepção (II) abrangem colaboradores de um âmbito geográfico alargado e incluem inúmeros estudos de caso, sobretudo no âmbito da literatura e do teatro do mundo latino e ibero-americano. These two volumes collect several studies about Greek and Latin theatre (I) and its reception (II). From Antiquity, beside the analysis of specific texts, are considered aspects related with the evolution of the tragic and comic genres, their agents and their civic function. The reception studies (II) put together collaborators from a large geography and include a big number of case studies, mainly considering literature and theatre from the latin and iberoamerican world.
MUJERES EN LA FRONTERA
Mujeres en la frontera es el quinto volumen del Seminario Permanente sobre Literatura y Mujer.Siglos XX y XXI. Después de investigar sobre autoras y personajes femeninos en la obra Universos femeninos en la literatura actual. Mujeres de papel, sobre la pervivencia y reescrituras de mitos femeninos en Tejiendo el mito, sobre memoria, compromiso y autoficción en Ecos de la memoria y sobre espacios físicos y simbólicos de las mujeres en Mujeres a la conquista de espacios, el seminario ha dedicado su atención al tema de las migraciones, los exilios, las diásporas y la movilidad geográfica y cultural en general. Si en el imaginario de hace unas décadas los que emigraban eran sobre todo ho...
MALAS
Malas es el sexto volumen del Seminario Permanente sobre Literatura y Mujer (siglos XX y XXI). Después de los estudios precedentes Universos femeninos en la literatura actual. Mujeres de papel, Tejiendo el mito, Ecos de la memoria, Mujeres a la conquista de espacio y Mujeres en la frontera, el seminario ha centrado su atención en la intrincada relación de la mujer con el concepto de bondad y maldad dentro de la cultura patriarcal. El concepto moderno de mujer buena, y su antagónica mujer mala, nace en las postrimerías del siglo XIX cuando a la mujer se le otorga la posibilidad de la agencia del bien. “El ángel del hogar” que describiera el poeta británico Coventry Patmore en su poema homónimo (1854) se contrapone a lo que hasta entonces la mujer “ha sido” en el imaginario de la cultura patriarcal: la demoniaca y tentadora Eva. En este volumen un elenco de investigadores e investigadoras nacionales e internacionales examinan en los diferentes capítulos cuestiones sobre la representación literaria y en las artes visuales de la buena y la mala señalando sus ambigüedades, contradicciones, paradojas y cambios.
