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Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature - Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the 'Chicas Raras' (Hardcover)
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Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature - Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the 'Chicas Raras' (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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This original collection of essays explores the work and life
choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social
activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the
educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female
subjectivity. It brings together writers who are not commonly
associated with each other, but whose voices overlap, allowing us
to foreground their unconventionality, their relationships to each
other, and their relation to modernity. The objective of this
volume is to explore how the idea of "queerness" played an
important role in the personal lives and social activism of these
writers, as well as in the unconventional and nonconformist
characters they created in their work. Together, the essays
demonstrate that the concept of "queer women" is useful for
investigating the evolution of women's writing and sexual identity
during the period of Spain's fitful transition to modernity in the
nineteenth century. The concept of queerness in its many meanings
points to the idea of non-normativity and gender dissidence that
encompasses how women intellectuals experienced friendship,
religion, sex, sexuality, and gender. The works examined include
autobiography, poetry, memoir, salon chronicles, short and long
fiction, pedagogical essays, newspaper articles, theater, and
letters. In addition to exploring the significant presence of queer
women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature and
culture, the essays examine the reasons why the voices of Spanish
women authors have been culturally silenced. One thrust in this
collection explores generational transitions of Spanish writers
from the romantics and their "hermandad lirica" ("lyrical
sisterhood") through to "las Sinsombrero" ("Women Without Hats"),
and finally, current Spanish writers linked to the LGBTQ+
community.
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