The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa write by Nuala Kenny. This book was released on 2012. The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive analysis of the novels of prominent contemporary Spanish writer and educator Josefina Aldecoa. Josefina Aldecoa, in her treatment of themes such as a woman's place in society under and after dictatorship, mother-daughter relationships, war, and memory, confirmed her unique role as a contemporary novelist concerned with women's identity in Spain and as a writer of the mid-century generation ('los niños de la guerra'). The first volume of her trilogy, Historia de una maestra, was one of the earliest narratives of historical memory to beproduced in Spain. In this sense, Aldecoa's work anticipated new developments in gender studies, such as the intersection of feminist concerns and cultural memory. This book offers a comprehensive examination of Aldecoa's trajectory as a novelist, from La enredadera to Hermanas, centring on her primary preoccupations of gender and memory, arguing that Aldecoa's fiction offers a new, more complex understanding of women's identity than previously understood. The work combines the two dominating theoretical components of feminism and cultural memory with close textual analysis of Aldecoa's narratives. Her novels highlight the importance of the details of women's daily experiences and struggles throughout the twentieth century, a period of significant socio-political upheaval and change in Spain's history. NUALA KENNY teaches Spanish at the National University of Maynooth, Ireland.
Gender and Memory in the Novels of Josefina Aldecoa
Gender and Memory in the Novels of Josefina Aldecoa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Memory in the Novels of Josefina Aldecoa write by Nuala Kenny. This book was released on 2008. Gender and Memory in the Novels of Josefina Aldecoa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Remembering Their Parents' Wars
Remembering Their Parents' Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering Their Parents' Wars write by Catharine B. Morgan. This book was released on 2006. Remembering Their Parents' Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mirrors and Echoes
Mirrors and Echoes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mirrors and Echoes write by Emilie L. Bergmann. This book was released on 2007-09-02. Mirrors and Echoes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “With contributions by well-known and respected critics, writing of a very high caliber, and essays that explore hitherto uncharted territory, Mirrors and Echoes is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Spanish women's writing.”—Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women
Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence
Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence write by Silvia Caporale-Bizzini. This book was released on 2006. Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Feminist theory on motherhood has successfully transformed mothers into subjects of their own discourse, recognized the historical, heterogeneous and socially constructed origins of their life experience while, at the same time, widening our understanding of the notion of mothering. This collection combines a literary and a wider cultural perspective from which to look at the topic of the representation of other or forgotten motherhoods. Mothers who have been forced to live exiled and away from their children, women who after trying to conceive, get pregnant but discover they cannot bear to become mothers, or even literary characters based on an autobiographical experience of a sexually abusive mother. The essays critically point out how writing becomes a tool to think and write about the many aspects of motherhood such as an idealized maternal experience versus the real one or the accepted stereotypes of the good mother and the bad mother.
