Sadlier's study of women writers in Portugal after the 1974
revolution is a useful contribution to a neglected European
literature, in which women are making a forceful contribution; and
it is one of the few sources of such information in English. . . .
Works analyzed include the famous Novas Cartas Portuguesas (Lisbon,
1972) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho
da Costa, Xerazade e os outros (Lisbon, 1964) by Fernanda Botelho,
Lidia Jorge's O Dia dos Prodigios (2nd ed., 1980), Helia Correia's
Montedemo (Lisbon, 1983), and Teolindo Gersao's O Silencio (1981).
These studies are followed by an appendix on the background of
women's rights and feminism in Portugal. Although Sadlier has
chosen these works because of their common tradition of literary
modernism and aesthetic experimentation, her readings are
descriptive rather than theoretical and provide an excellent
introduction to representative works and themes of major
contemporary women writers. Choice Contemporary Portugal offers a
fascinating mixture of social revolution, literary experiment, and
feminist practice. Since the revolution in 1974, the country has
produced a large number of writings by and about women. In fact,
for the first time in Portuguese history, there are at least as
many women as men writing books. The Question of How: Women Writers
and New Portuguese Literature presents an analysis of texts by the
Three Marias, Fernanda Botelho, Lidia Jorge, Helia Correia, and
Teolinda Gersao. The first book to be written in English on
contemporary Portuguese women writers, it investigates what
Portuguese literary women have to say about their culture. In
addition to showing how specific works of fiction are inflected by
gender and ideology, Sadlier also presents a brief historical
account of feminism in Portugal. The only book of its kind in the
field, The Question of How: Women Writers and the New Portuguese
Literature will be of interest to both students and specialists of
Hispanic literature, West European studies, Women's studies,
literary theory, and criticism.
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