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Unamuno: Aunt Tula (Paperback)
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Unamuno: Aunt Tula (Paperback)
Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
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Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few
novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female
protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent,
wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological
children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary
maternal figure for successive generations of children; some
related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a
complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love
for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role
expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own
physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility
of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and
the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the
text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of
special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and
maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries
across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of
the 20th century.
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