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Quixotic Modernists
Quixotic Modernists gives close readings of two novels by two little-studied writers of the early twentieth century in Spain, Felipe Trigo's Las ingenuas (1901) and Maria Martinez Sierra's Tu eres la paz (1906), in relation to the canonical Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. This study shows the modern message (regarding gender), and modernist qualities of the prose of these works. Included are discussions of Quijote intertexts, proverbial language and tactics, the angel and the mujer-nina, flower, water, and animal imagery, and visual arts in relation to gender definition. Also included are contemporary responses to the novels and material about the authors' lives and Spain's social conditions in the early twentieth century. Quixotic Modernists integrates these themes into a study of the novelization of difficulties in transforming contemporary gender and class roles. In all three authors' works, this process of change in roles for both men and women becomes a quixotic enterprise, in which artists as/and characters search to reconnect with an elusive material, social body.
María Martínez Sierra: A Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight
"Marâia Martâinez Sierra is the greatest female playwright you've never heard of. The wife of celebrated 20th century playwright Gregorio Martinez Sierra whose plays were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End, the authorship of his work was revealed to be that of Marâia, after his death in 1953, shocking the literary world. This edited collection features four plays by Marâia Martâinez Sierra, translated by Helen and Harley Granville Barker, along with an introduction by Patricia O'Connor, University of Cinicinnati, that examines Marâia's extraordinary life and work and the battle for her authorship to be recognized in both the Spanish spe...
