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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II. The contributors study women as agents and representations of social change in a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, plays, personal letters, and journalistic pieces. Canonical authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Leopoldo Alas “Clarín,” and Carmen de Burgos are considered alongside lesser known writers and activists such as María Rosa Gálvez, Sofía Tartilán, and Caterina Albert i Paradís. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Table of ContentsA Note on Translations … v
Introduction ... 1
Jennifer SmithPart I: Modern Spanish Women Writers as Activists ... 26 One Gender, Race, and Subalternity in the Antislavery Plays of María Rosa Gálvez and Faustina Sáez de Melgar ... 27
Akiko Tsuchiya Two Forging Progressive Futures for Spain’s Women and People: Sofía Tartilán (Palencia 1829-Madrid 1888) ... 55
Christine Arkinstall Three Fashion as Feminism: Carmen de Burgos’s Ideas on Fashion in Context ... 94
Roberta JohnsonPart II: Emilia Pardo Bazán as Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic ... 119 Four Pardo Bazán’s “Apuntes autobiográficos”and “El baile del Querubín”: A Theoretical Reexamination ... 120
Susan M. McKenna Five The Twice-Told and the Unsaid in Pardo Bazán’s “Presentido,” “En coche-cama,” “Confidencia,” and “Madre” ... 147
Linda M. Willem Six Emilia Pardo Bazán, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Stories of Conversion ... 175
Denise DuPont Seven “A Most Promising Girl”: Gender and Artistic Future in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “La dama joven” ... 205
Margot VersteegPart III:Representations of Female Deviance ... 237 Eight A Woman’s Search for a Space of Her Own in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's
Dos mujeres ... 238
Rogelia Lily Ibarra Nine Caterina Albert i Paradís: Writing, Solitude, and Woman’s
Jouissance, translated by Lourdes Albuixech... 261
Neus Carbonell Ten The Obstinate Negativity of Ana Ozores ... 289
Jo Labanyi Eleven Female Masculinity in
La Regenta ... 307
Jennifer Smith Afterword ... 333
Acknowledgments... 337
Bibliography ... 338
Index ... 373
About the Contributors ... 374
