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Book SynopsisThe question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult to overlook today. The very limited number of female authors in earlier times – whose numbers are increasing as more and more names of female writers consigned to oblivion by the historical canon are being unearthed – provided the justification for their discrimination. This volume contributes to the analysis of those past views on gender (all gender perspectives) as they appear through the lense of contemporary Catalan literature. In the social roles they adopt, female characters act, express, and assert themselves in the language they use and are based on the society of which they form part.
Table of ContentsAdéla Koťátková : Literary Discourse, Characters and Gender Studies — Maria Dasca : ‘Ser tota ulls’. The Visual Imagination of Mila and Natàlia, the Two Major Characters of Caterina Albert/Víctor Català and Mercè Rodoreda — Carles Cortés : Imaginary Women in Mercè Rodoreda’s Fiction — M. Àngels Francés Díez : Women-in-process: Isabel Clara Simó, Montserrat Roig and Carme Riera’s Female Characters — Vicent Salvador : The Desired Woman: Portraits of Women in the Poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés — Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez : Poems, Diaries and Masks: Joan Ferraté — Azucena Trincado Murugarren : On Sexual Difference and Lesbianism in Eva Baltasar’s Novels Permagel (2019) and Boulder (2020) — Meri Torras Francès : Demystification of (Lesbian) Romantic Love and Estrangement in Motherhood: Eva Baltasar’s Lonely Protagonists — Ramon X. Rosselló : Rewriting Female Characters in Contemporary Catalan Theatre: Phaedra and Antigone — Àlex Martín Escribà : Teresa Solana or How to X-ray Catalan Society through Crime — Diana Nastasescu : Two (Non-)adulterous Women: Cécile St. Arnaud and Isabel de Galceran — Juan Martínez–Gil : Trans Characters in Valencian Narrative in the 1970s and 1980s — Adolf Piquer : Forgotten Voices: From the Brothel to Literature .
