Full Description
Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain examines the development of the feminine cultural tradition in spain and how this tradition reshaped and defined a Spanish national identity. Each chapter focuses on representation of autobiography, alienation and exile, marginality, race, eroticism, political activism, and feminism within the ever-changing nationalisms in different regions of Spain. The book describes how concepts of gender and difference shaped the individual, collective, and national identities of Spanish women and significantly modified the meaning and representation of female sexuality.
Contents
Introduction Pre-Civil War Spain 1. Contesting the Body: Gender,Language and Sexuality. The Modern Woman at the Turn of the Century Maryellen Bieder 2. Solitude in the City: Victor Catala and Merce Rodoreda Bradely Epps 3. Spanish Women Writers of the Vanguard Era Roberta Johnson The Franco Era 4. Shattered Selves, Resistant Identities: Women's Autobiography in Exile Ofelia Ferran 5. Fictions of Equality: National Epic and Women Filmmakers during the Early Franco Regime Annabel Martin 6. Resemanticising Feminine Surrender: Cross-Gender Indentifications in the Writings of Spanish Female Fascist Activists Jo Labanyi 7. The Political Memoirs of Lidia Falcon Linda Gould Levine The Transition to Democracy 8. Catalonia Between the National and the Postnational: The Literary proposal of Catalan Women Writers during the Transition Teresa Vilaros 9. Drawing Difference: The Women Artists of Madriz and The Cultural Revolutions of the 1980s Gema Perez Sanchez 10. Screening Room: Spanish Women Filmmakers Look at the Transition Kathleen Vernon Democratic Spain 11. Female Versions of the Basque Nation Pilar Rodriquez 12. Carmen Martin Gaite's Portraist of a 'Different' Hero, Gendered Feminine Janet Perez 13. Gender, Difference and the Metafictional Gaze in Marina Mayoral's Dar la vida y el alma Catherine Bellver 14. Reproduction and Discourse in Twentieth-Century Women Writers in Spain Geraldine C. Nichols The End of a Century 15. Let's Talk about Sex: La Sonrisa Vertical after Las edades de Lulu Silvia Bermudez 16. Literature, Gender, and the Market at the Edge of the Millenium Akiko Tsuchiya 17. Engendering the Touristic Gaze: Marta Balletbo-Coll's 'Cost Brava Family Album' and Rosa Verges's 'Souvenir' Jaume Marti-Olivella 18. A World of Difference in the Cinema of Iciar Bollain Susan Martin-Marquez Afterword List of Contributors Index
